BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 2nd, 2025 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

Posted on May 1, 2025 by jmaz479

“When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don’t forget: the only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

Your life’s journey has an outer purpose and an inner purpose. The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that, which, of course, implies future. But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with WHERE you are going or WHAT you are doing, but everything to do with HOW. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 1st, 2025 by Dan Millman in LIVING ON PURPOSE

Posted on April 30, 2025 by jmaz479

“Spirit is not something we get from our work as much as something we bring to It – and it’s less about WHAT we do than HOW we do it. As Martin Luther King Jr. advised, “Whatever your life work is, do it so well that no one else could do it better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper.”

Turn your work into a form of personal and spiritual growth by doing it exceedingly well, in the spirit of service to the world.”

Dan Millman, in “Living on Purpose”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 by Sara Chetkin in THE HEALING CURVE

Posted on April 29, 2025 by jmaz479

“Fear does not keep you safe. It only holds you back. When you begin to open up and allow for something unfamiliar in your life, something you may fear, you have a better chance of experiencing truth. I mention this because I spend so much worrying, so much time in uncertainty, that I prize the moments when I can say, “this is it, this one piece of the puzzle is solved.” I feel released from fear when I come to a realization about my own harmful belief systems or when I find a healer who is implementing real change in my body. At those times, I see the value of the path I have chosen. I understand how much I’m learning.

These little breakthroughs come in all shapes and sizes. I am always grappling with the natural laws – the law of attraction, divine providence, anatomy, and physiology. Nothing is too far out. Nothing is unrelated to the all-consuming quest to understand my life. And the more earnest I am in my quest, the more open I become to every possibility. The more open I am, the more every moment appears as an opportunity to experience grace. But these moments of grace don’t occur unless I break free from my habitual perspective: my “comfort zone.” You have to open up in order to see some change.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 by James Redfield in THE CELESTINE PROPHECY

Posted on April 28, 2025 by jmaz479

“If we find ourselves hanging on to the need to blame parents or siblings anyone else in our early lives, it is usually because blame itself is a part of our control drama. We can’t go forward and continue to expand our energy because blame always throws us back into the old drama.

Only forgiveness can fully liberate our potential to go past these repeated scripts that waste our time. And I believe that forgiveness must be expressed and demonstrated to be totally freeing. Many therapists recommend that we write a letter to everyone that we blame offering our forgiveness. That doesn’t mean we have to spend any time with this person; such acts just create closure and clear the air for a new life to begin. Forgiveness reinforces the higher witness awareness that we have acquired. The key to forgiveness is simply acknowledging that everyone was doing the best he or she could at the time.”

James Redfield, in “The Celestine Prophecy”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 28th, 2025 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK

Posted on April 27, 2025 by jmaz479

“During all the education we receive, which means all the knowledge that is programmed in our mind, we create the concept of the I Am. Everything we believe we are, everything we know about how to be a human is the I Am. The Toltec call this the human form. We are not talking about the physical body, but about our own dream. When we say, “I am a man; I am a woman; I am a human, and this is my whole reality,” everything is judged by that knowledge, and of course, the dream becomes hell. This is the drama of humanity.

The dream of our life is so limited because we take all the power of our creation and put it in a little box, and with all our power we seal the box. And we live inside the box, trapped inside that little box. Well, that little box is the human form. It is our creation, and all our will is invested in that I Am.

Your faith is so strong that when you believe, “I am never going to be this,” thy will be done, you are never going to be that. If you believe I cannot do it, thy will be done, you cannot do it. Whatever you believe, you put your faith in that belief, and your faith will make it true.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, in “The Four Agreements Companion Book”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 25th, 2025 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

Posted on April 24, 2025 by jmaz479

“How many times have you said to yourself, “I just got a hit (or a hunch, or a gut-feeling) to go there.” And so you did; you went there, and then found out it was a good thing you did. You were following your Guidance. Or you got a crazy idea to try such-and-such. And you did. And it was a success because it was fun. You were following your Guidance.

But you don’t have to be starting a new business to have ideas, or hunches or insights. Whether your Want is to find the fastest way around the traffic downtown or to find a new mate, all you have to do is pay attention to the signs that will come to make it happen, AND LEARN TO TRUST THEM!”

Lynn Grabhorn, in “Excuse Me, Your LIFE is Waiting”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 24th, 2025 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

Posted on April 23, 2025 by jmaz479

“The greatest challenge in life, in spiritual practice, or in any field of endeavor is how to turn what we know into what we actually DO. It can take years to consistently live according to what we have learned. In sports, we may understand how to swing at a ball, or shoot a basket, or do a somersault long before we can actually perform it. This is also true in the skills of everyday life.

We practice, we make mistakes, see the results, and practice more – until we begin to make fewer or smaller mistakes. This is the process of bringing wisdom to life through action, whether learning to breathe deeply, or to behave with kindness and compassion.”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 by Linda Deir, author of GUIDED

Posted on April 22, 2025 by jmaz479

“It’s time for a change, at least that’s what people think. It’s New Years and people want to change something about themselves. What if you can’t change? What if your life is scripted out ahead of time and you are just experiencing it? Yes, people would like to not have setbacks in their life, tragedies, or illnesses. But what if they were all scripted into your journey here? Rather than desiring change why not just desire to be a better person – who you already are? Expect these challenges and face them willingly.

When you get to the end of your journey here, everything you were concerned and worried about, or tried to change will disappear in an instant. What will be left? Your memories of a small child you helped, a garden you grew, a meal you fixed for yourself and loved ones that they appreciated. That’s what you will remember. It’s that you went on this journey and left the world with a little more love and compassion. You left the world a warmer place and you did it with our help.

Your greatest success was not what you did once you got here, but just in getting here. You had everything easy and difficult put in front of you as tests, as experiments that you would have to learn from once you got here. So, desiring to change your life in any way would mean defeating the purpose in being here because that’s what you came here to resolve within yourself.”

Linda Deir, in “Guided”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 by Michael Tamura in YOU ARE THE ANSWER

Posted on April 21, 2025 by jmaz479

“Society tends to measure our worth by what we do, as well as by how much and how well we do it. Yet, in truth, our worth never depends on our accomplishments or lack of them. It’s not in accomplishing something of greatness that you gain your worth. It is in appreciating your true worth that everything you do becomes of great value. When you truly value your life, every smile, every handshake, every word you speak carries the truth and power of your worth.

When we do not know our worth, everything we do carries our ignorance and reflects the very destruction of that worth. It isn’t that when we commit a crime we become worthless denizens in this world. It’s that when we forget our true worth, we reflect our ignorance of our worth in the crimes we commit. In ignorance, we isolate ourselves from the purpose for which we came into being.”

Michael J. Tamura, in “You Are the Answer”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 21, 2025 by Mark Nepo in THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Posted on April 20, 2025 by jmaz479

“It was a very small thing, watching a robin carry a twig too big for its nest. It tried once, then twice, to use it, and somehow, with its very small bird brain, it knew it was no good. It simply flew off and picked another.

I went and found the twig. There wasn’t a mark on it. I rolled it in my hand and thought of all the times I’ve labored, trying to make things too big fit. So often what we want is like that twig, too big to be of use, and we stay lodged in an unhappiness created by holding on to something that can’t complete our nest.

It was humbling to watch a small bird work, singing as it went, leaving what it couldn’t use as it found it. If we could only treat each other with such kindness.”

Mark Nepo, in “The Book of Awakening”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 18th, 2025 by Marianne Williamson in ILLUMINATA

Posted on April 17, 2025 by jmaz479

“Albert Einstein once described his creative moments as “muscular.” There’s a consciousness we’re capable of that integrates our various dimensions. It’s joyful to be there because it feels like we’ve broken through constrictions which normally hold us back. This kind of spontaneous integration is not so out of the ordinary, so much as it is not part of ordinary conversation. It is under-discussed, under-investigated, invalidated as too soft or even ridiculed as nonsense. Mystical thought is trivialized, diminished, even labeled inane by our gatekeepers, but spiritual concepts are breaking into the vernacular despite the resistance of a materialistic bias.

Science will one day validate the mystical experience – in fact it has already begun to do so – but this waiting around for science to tell us that the sky is blue is becoming an increasingly unacceptable slowing down of the spiritual wagon train. Who’s giving permission to whom? The mystical experience doesn’t need the world at all, but the world desperately needs the mystical experience.”

Marianne Williamson, in “Illuminata”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 17th, 2025 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

Posted on April 16, 2025 by jmaz479

“The old belief was that there is not enough abundance to go around, and so we thought if you get yours, I lose mine. If I get some abundance, I have to deprive you of yours. We have believed that people are constantly waiting out there to take our good from us. We thought that there is only so much substance in this world, and therefore it can be used up.

The human race has had it all wrong. We have to re-educate ourselves so that we firmly realize that God’s source of good is unlimited. God, by nature, is a creative process, always capable of (and desirous of) bringing new and more into our lives.

The key to prosperity is the realization that prosperity doesn’t come by getting more. It comes by giving more. The law of prosperity is actually 180 degrees from what most of us have been taught. We prosper not by concentrating on what we are getting, but by emphasizing what we are giving. There is simply no way to circumvent this law, and it may take a quantum shift in your thinking to bring yourself around to the truth.”

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on April 15, 2025 by jmaz479

“There is no guarantee that you are going to be here tomorrow, much less next week or next year. If you don’t give 100 percent of your effort and focus to your life, what is the point of being here? If you are not about treating other people the way you want to be treated, what is the point of being here? If you cannot say that your life is the dream that you always wanted it to be, and that if you died tomorrow it would be all right because you knew you had fulfilled your destiny, what is the point of being here?

Let me spell it out for you. The point of being here is to live your dreams as if your life depends on it – because it does. Each of us fills a niche so unique, so vital, that to live any other way is in direct conflict with the laws of Spirit.”

John St. Augustine, in “Living an Uncommon Life”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 by Stephen R. Covey in THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

Posted on April 14, 2025 by jmaz479

“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all. In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.>

Victor Frankl suggests that there are three central values in life – the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness. My own experience with people confirms the point Frankl makes – that the highest of the three values is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. In other words, what matters most is how we RESPOND to what we experience in life.

Difficult circumstances often create paradigm shifts, whole new frames of reference by which people see the world and themselves and others in it, and what life is asking of them. Their larger perspective reflects the attitudinal values that lift and inspire us all.”

Stephen R. Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 14th, 2025 by JB Lewis in THE SOUL & THE BRAIN

Posted on April 13, 2025 by jmaz479

“Nothing but nothing happens in your life without the say-so of the Soul. The brain creates nothing – it only repeats processes over and over again. The brain can take in sights and sounds and perform procedures based on rules that have been established, but it alone does not draw anything to itself. So if you have found yourself concentrating and focusing on something to have, then that is the brain repeating what it has learned from Certified Attraction Coaches, Gurus, or others that sell these mysterious secrets.

I tell you this: There are no secrets between you and I, simply because I do not know how to keep a secret. I am always, always forthcoming, for it would not serve Me to be otherwise. I need you to take me to all the places of physical experience I wish to go. Nothing personal, but I would never allow you to (guess) your way through this journey.”

JB Lewis, in “The Soul & The Brain, Volume I”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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