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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: Taking Responsibility
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“Many of us have spent our entire lives seeing other people or external circumstances as the cause of our difficulties. Unfortunately, when we finally grasp the concept that we are responsible for our own lives, too many of us begin … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 by Paul Ferrini in THE SILENCE OF THE HEART
“The majority of people you accept as authority figures in your life will abuse you. Your act of accepting their authority constitutes permission to them to abuse you. You may say “but I didn’t know they would take advantage of … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 21st, 2016 by Richard Carlson in DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF
“Blaming others takes an enormous amount of mental energy. It’s a “drag-me-down” mindset that creates stress and disease. Blaming makes you feel powerless over your own life because your happiness is contingent on the actions and behavior of others, which … Continue reading
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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, September 1st, 2016 by Stuart Wilde in THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE
“Being light-hearted is angelic, and being angelic is being infinite. And being infinite is easier that being stuck with a bunch of boring grownups who fret over their investments, and who strut and work hard to pay out money for … Continue reading
Posted in Ponder on This Daily Inspiration, Taking Responsibility
Tagged Stuart Wilde, The Little Money Bible
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY
“Examine all of the supposed lacks and scarcities in your life. Then say to yourself, “I created all of this with my thoughts, conditioning, beliefs and actions.” It is only by recognizing that you have always been attracting to yourself … Continue reading
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Tagged Manifest Your Destiny, Wayne W. Dyer
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 by Todd Rundgren
“It’s fairly common for people to go through their lives with someone to blame: “My Jewish guilt,” or “‘My parents,” or “Society made me do it.” There are any number of conditions as to why your life didn’t turn out … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in PULLING YOUR OWN STRINGS
“As you assess past influences on our own life, make sure you’re not hanging onto the belief that anyone else is responsible for what you are feeling or doing, or even failing to do, today. If you catch yourself blaming … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, September 21st, 2015 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY
“I have heard people say that they learned the truth of health and wholeness by being sick, the reality of abundance by suffering lack, the beauty of harmonious relationships by witnessing firsthand the ugliness of discord. Such educational experiences may … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS
“Unfortunately, most of us don’t commit to what we really desire. We lie in bed at night and pray for a better life, a better body, a better job, but nothing changes. This is because we are lying to ourselves. … Continue reading
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Tagged Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 by Wayne W. Dyer in Manifest Your Destiny
“To be willing to accept total responsibility for yourself puts you in a position of being worthy of receiving and attracting the object of your desires. If someone else is responsible for your perceived shortcomings, and you are blaming them … Continue reading
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Best of PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 23rd, 2015 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT
“The moment we recognize the degree to which our difficulties are SELF-IMPOSED, we begin to heal them. We end self-sabotage only by taking responsibility for the choices and actions that created it. Only when we stop blaming our boss or … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Millman, Everyday Enlightenment
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS
“In order to gain wisdom and freedom from your past, you must take responsibility for all the events that have happened in your life. Taking responsibility means being able to say to yourself, “I did that.” There’s a big difference … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 28th, 2013 by Deepak Chopra in THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS
“What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ABILITY to have a creative RESPONSE to the situation AS IT IS … Continue reading
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Tagged Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 26th, 2013 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS
“As you become more conscious it will be increasingly evident that it’s your responsibility to choose empowering interpretations. It is sometimes easier to be a victim, but a negative perspective provides you with a guarantee of more of the same. … Continue reading
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Tagged Debbie Ford, Don Henley, Everything Is Different Now, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“To me, living consciously means accepting our human weaknesses and imperfections without judging ourselves harshly, and being willing to learn from our unconscious patterns of behavior once we become aware of them. It means looking at our experiences as gifts … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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