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Jeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi's Journey, available in both print and eBook formats, launched Pondercentral.com in May 2007 as a web-based forum for "PONDER on THIS," a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999.
Selected from a vast library of spiritual growth books, the messages are currently received by hundreds of people all over the world. Please note that in addition to Pondercentral.com, Jeff occasionally posts to his Spirituality Simplified blog. To contact Jeff via email please click here.
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Category Archives: Ponder on This Daily Inspiration
PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE
“The only person you are in competition with is yourself. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to first realize that even if you win the rat race…you’re still a rat! Even if you think you have it … Continue reading
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PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 17th, 2009 by David Simon in THE TEN COMMITMENTS
“Playwright, poet and first president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel once said, “Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it.” If you keep this in mind as you search for … Continue reading
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Tagged David Simon, The Ten Commitments
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Neale Donald Walsh in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 2
“I tell you this: Your feelings will never get you into”trouble,” because you feelings are your truth. If you want to live a life where you never follow your feelings, but where every feeling is filtered through the machinery of … Continue reading
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Tagged Conversations with God Book 2, Neale Donald Walsch
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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH
“Choose what information and situations you agree with and want as your truth. What you accept as your truth will create your reality. If you read something you don’t like or don’t agree with, don’t accept it; it isn’t true … Continue reading
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Tagged Sanaya Roman, Spiritual Growth
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PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 7th, 2009 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“If you are wearing a mask, you created it; and you did this for a reason. A mask, just as any other creation, is made of energy. You once made a decision, or a movement, in the direction of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Pete Koerner, The Belief Formula
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 by John Van Auken in BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN
“The deeper self is so natural that we often miss it and build an elaborate image of some angel-like figure to which we can’t completely relate. The deeper self sees with the same eyes, hears with the same ears and … Continue reading
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Tagged Born Again and Again, John Van Auken
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PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by Rosanna Ienco in AWAKENING THE DIVINE SOUL
“Do you ever feel like the Universe is trying to get your attention? Have you ever had a series of events steering you towards something?…We sometimes forget to listen to that quiet voice within, or that loud knock on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Awakening the Divine Soul, Rosanna Ienco
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PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 31st, 2009 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“We each live within a comfort zone of beliefs and knowledge we have been given thus far by people in our lives. If you’re not creating a life you love with the recipe you’ve been given, you may need ingredients … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J. in AWARENESS
“Anytime you’re practicing renunciation, you’re deluded. How about that? You’re deluded. What are you renouncing? Anytime you renounce something, you are tied forever to the thing you renounce…As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, Fr. Anthony DeMello
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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 by Stuart Wilde in SIXTH SENSE
“If you are a positive, loving person, and if you stay away from shady deals and so forth, you’ll rarely become greatly entangled with scumbags, as they usually exist in a world of their own. But there are a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged Sixth Sense, Stuart Wilde
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 16th, 2009 by Stuart Wilde in THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE
“All ideas that are holy and good and honest, ideas that serve humanity and yourself, will have a positive energy of their own. When you head out to materialize a money-making plan, it will gather momentum. It’s as if the … Continue reading
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Tagged Stuart Wilde, The Little Money Bible
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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 by Rosanna Ienco in AWAKENING THE DIVINE SOUL
“The truth is that we push things aside, thinking that they can be forgotten and buried…until they chew and chew at us, consuming a huge chunk of our being and taking over our lives. I believe that deeply rooted issues … Continue reading
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Tagged Awakening the Divine Soul, Rosanna Ienco
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, June 25th, 2009 by Paul Ferrini in THE SILENCE OF THE HEART
“The greatest block to spiritual awakening is the pretension that there is no suffering in your life, that you have no pain. If you don’t feel pain in your life, you are either awakened or you are in denial. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Paul Ferrini, The Silence of the Heart
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by Stuart Wilde in an article THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS
“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. … Continue reading
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Tagged Stuart Wilde
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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 by Gloria Wendroff in HEAVENLETTERS
“What if you knew there is a Great Light that lights you? And that when two Human beings meet, they are like two sticks rubbed together by an Unseen Hand, and they ignite, and ignite again and again, two flames … Continue reading
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Tagged Gloria Wendroff, Heavenletters
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