BEST of PONDER on THIS Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 by Asara Lovejoy in THE ONE COMMAND

“We have been trained to distrust what we know because we deny what we know to gain approval from others. Because we desire love and approval from those others, we will protect a position that we think will gain us love and recognition, even at the expense of our own best interests.

The fearful thinking of the collective society, the distrust of others, the fear of terrorism, and the idea of lack and struggle have great power in our thinking for the very same reasons. We fear that we will not be liked by the tribe if we oppose a popular idea. Taking this to the extreme is the fear that we will be persecuted for those beliefs, or even killed for those beliefs.

Clearing your ancestral programs can open amazing doors of opportunity as you learn to live safely in the world connected to your greater good, your Source Mind. New friends and relationships appear in many mysterious and wonderful ways.”

Asara Lovejoy, in “The One Command”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 27th, 2018 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“Our negative thoughts are receiving the attention that our prayers deserve, and are manifesting in our lives. If you don’t believe this, then you probably believe that the negative things in your life are being thrown your way by a malevolent God out to destroy you – or at least torture and torment you with a life of frustration. While it is true that you may have been taught these kinds of things about God, you alone have the power to see the God that is in your own life. No individual outside of you can describe your God to you. If you see the world as a dangerous place, then you probably see God as the biggest danger of all. Could anything else be logical?

This is the result of programming, or a deteriorating set of thought patterns, and needs to be addressed if you truly wish to live a life of fulfillment. God is not out to get anyone; and if you think you are a victim of life, then you are indeed a victim – but only of your own thought processes and of those who programmed you to think this way. Prayer works. Thoughts are things.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 24th, 2018 by Deepak Chopra in AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND

“It would be impossible to isolate a single thought or feeling, a single belief or assumption, that doesn’t have some effect on aging, either directly or indirectly. Our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being changed by them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune system; falling in love can boost it. Despair and hopelessness raise the risk of heart attacks and cancer, thereby shortening life. Joy and fulfillment keep us healthy and extend life. This means that the line between biology and psychology can’t really be drawn with any certainty.

Because the mind influences every cell in the body, human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself. Hundreds of research findings from the last three decades have verified that aging is much more dependent on the individual than was ever dreamed of in the past.”

Deepak Chopra, in “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 by Rhonda Britten in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE by John St. Augustine

“Most people I have worked with over the years seem to be waiting for someone or something outside of themselves for permission to move on. Years go by, and we wait…and wait…and wait. Nothing happens, and do you know why? Because not only is no one coming, but also you wouldn’t believe them if they did grant you permission to live your life in spite of fear. How many people do you know, including yourself, who keep doing the same things over and over gain, hurting themselves and the people around them, and they know it on some level, but continue to do it anyway? It’s because they have not gotten to the point inside where the person they should trust the most – themselves, gives them permission to drop what was and move on to what can be.

Look, this is tough stuff for sure, and it’s not going to be easy. Life is not set up to be easy. Only humans think this way, and it holds us back. Growth is a constant wrestling match between who we think we are – based on our beliefs – and who we hope to become some day. If fear is the deciding factor, guess what wins out every time.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 by Stuart Wilde in WHISPERING WINDS OF CHANGE

“Everything you commit to will have weight. It may be the emotional weight of owning something, it may be the weight of duties you take one, or the weight of relationships, especially if you’re the one holding the relationship up. Then there’s the financial weight you take on. Every financial commitment will probably force you into tick-tock*, because that’s mostly where the money is. You may have to go into tick-tock from time to time anyway, but you don’t want to be buried in so deep it drives you crazy. In my view, it’s better to live a humble, happy life, traveling and experiencing the world, than to own it. What’s the point of lots of stuff that you have to polish, insure, and worry over?”

Stuart Wilde, in “Whispering Winds of Change”

*Tick-tock, as Stuart refers to it, is more commonly known as the “work-a-day world”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. in IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES

“Spending time in nature can be a wonderful source of inspiration. The natural world has an energy to it that can put you int touch with the deepest parts of yourself. Thoreau spent two years alone in the woods so he could commune with nature and access the wisdom inside him. It was there that he wrote some of his most inspiring work – much of which contains timeless wisdom that is every bit as valid and true a century later. He discovered that all his answers lay inside him, just as yours lie inside you. Swim in the ocean, climb a tree, hike a mountain, or simply take a long walk in the woods. Do whatever activity calls to you that will draw you into the rhythm of nature and draw out your natural instincts.”

Cherie Carter-Scott, in “If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 20th, 2018 by Asara Lovejoy in THE ONE COMMAND

“Fear, lack, and insecurity are the emotions of your small self. Your small self believes that the fearful experiences from your childhood are true, and that you are powerless to change what you fear. As an adult, you may find yourself attracted to fearful ideas, which are prevalent almost everywhere…You go into agreement with those fears and ideas because, as a child, you were trained to agree with the outside authority of your parents, right or wrong. It’s natural to simply go along. It is natural from your tribal, instinctual brain to want to be part of the tribe and to agree with the rest of the pack as well.

We repeat the patterns of our earliest trauma because that is what the subconscious has learned. Now you can learn another way. In the simple process of going to that greater capacity within you, your Source Mind, you learn to think, feel, and react in another part of your consciousness. You are in your Source Mind when you lower your brain wave to theta. When you are connected to Source, you can instantly change any and all early traumatic patterns, activate your DNA for wealth, and add knowledge of new experiences you have never had before.”

Asara Lovejoy, in “The One Command”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 17th, 2018 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“Right living is the result of right thinking. You project right thoughts out ahead of you on the road of life, and then you experience the reality of living in those right thoughts when you have arrived at them – or more specifically, when time has delivered them to you. If you are experiencing turmoil, you are experiencing the result of at least one stray negative thought, or maybe an intentionally placed negative thought. The thought, which you may have long since forgotten, has come to fruition as an obstacle in your path. By redressing the original thought, or by creating a new thought to replace the negative one, we project better realities into our path and then we live the right thought.

The right thought leads to the living of that right thought – right thinking leads to right living. Any obstacle is but a moment of your life, unless you prolong the experience by dwelling there in your thoughts, instead of allowing that moment to fall into the past. Allow your mind to let go of the negative so it will be able to take hold of your next experience – hopefully one created with peace and joy in mind. Fill your life with pleasing thoughts of the reality you desire. Do not dwell on the negative. It takes right thinking to project positive experiences for ourselves, so get in the driver’s seat and get in the right lane to right living. It’s not that difficult, and your life will surely be a better place to live.”

Pete Koerner in “The Belief Formula”

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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, August 16th, 2018 by John. St.Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

“Contrary to what the Rolling Stones would tell you, time is not on your side. It’s moving forward every second, separating you from the past and thrusting you into the future. How you move into whatever time you have left is your choice. What you do is a direct result of who you believe yourself to be. Your voice matters in things great and small. If you allow yourself to get out of the way, the way will be shown. If you live the truth as best as you know it, the consequences will be of your choosing and not someone else’s. Being responsible for your actions is a sure way to reclaim your power. Letting go of the things you thought defined you for the opportunity to be defined by something much greater than you brings with it a sense of purpose that no material thing can match.

About 2,600 years ago, Socrates sealed his fate by telling people that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”‘ After a few mock trials and a cup of hemlock, early Greece’s version of Dr. Phil was toast because he spoke the truth, as he knew it. We all know it, but few of us actually stop long enough to take an objective view of our existence and make some sense out of the senseless moments in which we have participated. While the unexamined life is not worth living, the uncommon life is worth everything.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

“Often I’ve heard people complain about a plan that failed. “But it was a good idea! I don’t know why it didn’t succeed!” But though we might have thought something was a good idea, the mortal mind has a limited perspective on ‘good ideas.’ By what criteria can we discern a truly good idea, given our inability to know what will happen in the future, what lessons need to be learned by whom, and how our actions fit into God’s larger plan?

A blessed idea does not come from the mortal mind, which has no idea how our talents and abilities would work best within a larger unfolding good. And from a spiritual perspective, there is a larger plan of unfolding good, a will-to-healing that is built into the workings of the universe.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

“The inclination to bond to our wounds rather than move past them traps us in a constant state of feeling unworthy. A person who has experienced traumatic events in life, such as sexual abuse, the death of loved ones, traumatic illnesses, accidents, family disruption, drug addictions and the like can become bonded with the past painful events and replay them for attention and pity. These wounds of our lives can seem to give us an enormous amount of power of others.

The more we tell others about our wounds and our suffering, the more we create an atmosphere of pity for ourselves. Our creative spirit remains so connected to our memories of woundedness that it cannot be about the business of transforming and manifesting. A feeling of being unworthy of receiving all that one desires is the result.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 13th, 2018 by Carolyn J. Gable in EVERYTHING I KNOW AS A CEO I LEARNED AS A WAITRESS

“There are two ways of looking at the matter of honesty. An old saying puts it this way: “If you are going to be a liar, you had better have a great memory.” This suggests that honesty is the best policy simply because your chances of getting caught are high. It is not worth the risk. Another old saying looks at it differently, and is far less complicated: “Do the right thing.” Unlike the first saying, this one suggests that honesty is the best policy because it is the honorable thing to do. This saying puts personal integrity at the head of the line, and it is hard to go wrong with that sort of thinking.

The problem with lying is that it chips away at the legacy you are trying to build for yourself as a person. Every time you take a chip out of that legacy and sacrifice a piece of your integrity, it is almost impossible to build it back up again…Trust is about predictability and consistency, and it does not take much to put those two traits in doubt. A single demonstration of dishonesty is often all it takes.

Interestingly, we’re often driven to lie because we do not think people can handle the truth. That is absolutely 100 percent false. Take my word for it. People can handle the truth, no matter how bad the news is.”

Carolyn J. Gable in, “Everything I Know as a CEO I Learned as a Waitress”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 10th, 2018 by Asara Lovejoy in THE ONE COMMAND

“You have the ability within your mind to be in a different portion of your brain, the portion of your brain that isn’t programmed yet. It doesn’t have a pattern yet. You can program that portion of your brain to be the master that you desire to be, because that portion of your brain is not programmed with the collective unconscious or negative thinking. It is that greater capacity of unlimited thinking, or thinking in unlimited ways.

The path to bring your good to you is by expanding your consciousness into a cauldron of receptivity for your greater prosperity. You have the ability to receive the good that comes to you, energetically and emotionally.

As you expand and increase your capacity for that emotional good, your financial good follows.”

Asara Lovejoy, in “The One Command”

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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, August 9th, 2018 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“If you gathered together a hundred people, who suffered from an assortment of chronic medical problems, and asked them who among them prayed several times a day for relief, how many do you think would raise their hands? The fact is most people are chronically ill because they either believe they deserve to be ill or punished for something, or they do not believe they deserve to be healed – or that healing is even possible. Chronic illness begins deep within, long before any physical symptoms manifest. If you want to heal, you must decide that it is possible to heal, you deserve to be better, and that you are ready to heal. This is truly all there is to it.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 by Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J. in THE WAY TO LOVE

“Now is the time to see that absolutely nothing outside of you can bring you lasting joy. But the moment you do that you will notice that a fear arises in your heart. That fear that if you allow the discontent to be, it will turn into a raging passion that will grip you and cause you to revolt against everything that your culture and your religion hold dear; against a whole way of thinking and feeling and perceiving the world that they have brainwashed you into accepting.

This devouring flame will cause you not just to rock the boat but to burn the boat to ashes. Suddenly you will find yourself living in an altogether different world, infinitely removed from the world of the people around you, for everything that others hold dear, everything they are crying their hearts out for, honor, power, acceptance, approval, security, wealth, is seen for the stinking garbage that it is. It disgusts and nauseates. And everything others are forever running away from holds no terrors for you anymore. You have become serene and fearless and free, for you have stepped out of your illusory world and into the kingdom.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “The Way to Love”

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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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