PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 4th, 2017 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

“You deserve to have whatever it is you see and truly desire. The only difference between you and the people you idolize is that they are manifesting one of the qualities you desire and probably fulfilling their dreams When you are not living up to your potential, it’s easy to project your positive traits onto other people who are living up to theirs. When you start to fulfill your own dreams and goals you’ll become less interested in what are people are doing. We each need to become our own hero. The only way to do this is to take back the parts of us that are plugged into someone else, the parts of us that we have given away.”

Debbie Ford, in “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 by Alan Cohen in DARE TO BE YOURSELF

“There is one awareness that gives us the energy and power to keep going and make our dream come true: Remember the vision. Remember why you decided to do this in the first place. Remember the excitement and enthusiasm you had before things got tougher. Remember the gift you want to deliver to the world, and the way that only you can deliver it. If you remember the vision, you will have all the power you need to complete the project and triumph over all kinds of adversity. Fear would tell you to quit when hurdles confront you, but wisdom will give you the strength and the energy to surpass them.”

Alan Cohen, in “Dare to Be Yourself”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 by John Selby in EXPAND THIS MOMENT

“My experience is that, with a little bit of training, most people most of the time do have the power to just say no to their worries. Ultimately it’s a matter of choice – and action. But please note that I’m not suggesting you try to turn off your primitive fear center altogether. There are times every day when it’s vital to respond to the wake-up signal of fear. And a certain amount of time spent imagining potentially dangerous situations can keep you from getting hurt. But almost always, habitual worrying about the future is dangerous to your health, for four reasons:

Every moment spent focusing your power of attention on an imagined future event is a moment when you’re not here in the present to deal with dangers that might appear right now.

When you’re caught up in worry, your body reacts with a host of fear-based neurological and hormonal secretions that, if not released in immediate physical action, generate stress conditions that make you weak and dizzy, cloud your brain, and leave you unable to successfully deal with danger in the present moment.

When you’re stuck in worry mode, your overall performance at work drops, your ability to relate successfully is reduced, and your capacity to feel compassion is lost. Both your company and your family suffer as a result – and so do you.

At deeper levels, anxiety prevents you from receiving insight, love, power, and guidance from your spiritual core. Your consciousness contracts, and you’re all alone – which in turn makes you feel anxious and depressed.

John Selby, in “Expand This Moment”

To see these facts clearly is to evoke positive change in yourself.”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 1st, 2017 by Neale Donald Walsch in HOME WITH GOD

“All of life is interconnected. No aspect or individuation of the Whole acts independently of any other aspect or individuation. Life continuously creates interactively. We are producing outcomes mutually. There is no other way We CAN produce them.

Your conversation with others, and all the information that comes to you from your outer world, is like rays from the sun. They cause the seeds within you to grow.

There are many things that exist in your outer world that can lead you in the direction of your inner truth. Yet even those people, places, objects, and events are only reminders. They are like signposts. That is, in fact, what the “outside world” is all about. The physical world is designed to provide you with a context within which you might Experience outwardly what you Know inwardly.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “Home With God”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 28th, 2017 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

“Become a person who is willing to tell those around you how much you appreciate them. Make a concerted effort to say aloud how much you love your family members without making it a phony ritual. Be willing to say aloud what a lovely home you have and how much you appreciate it, or to express appreciation to someone who does your laundry or cooks a fine meal for you. Do this in a sincere fashion and you will see how quickly this attitude is reciprocated and appreciated.

You can practice this attitude of gratitude with strangers. Do small favors like returning a shopping cart to the store rather than leaving it in the parking lot, or telling a waitress how much you appreciate her kind attention to details. The more you are willing to express gratitude, the more you are cultivating an experience of unconditional love.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 27th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

“If there is truly nothing that you can do to change you’re here and now, and you can’t remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. Through surrender, you will be free internally of the situation. You may then find that the situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are free.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 by Gregg Braden in THE ISAIAH EFFECT

“Rather than viewing political treaties and military solutions as answers, perhaps now is the time to recognize them as bridges to a new way of thinking. It appears that we have reached a critical time in the evolution of governments and nations, when the pattern of demands followed by force simply does not work the way it did even fifty years ago. The wise use of force may serve us in isolated incidents of short duration.

Each time we apply a military bandage, however, it is akin to placing our finger over a tear in the fabric of a balloon filled with water. What appears to be a “fix” in one place becomes a bulge somewhere else on the balloon. This is precisely the scenario that is unfolding with respect to global politics. To change the conditions that allow war, oppression, and mass suffering, we must change the thinking that has allowed the conditions to be present.”

Gregg Braden, in “The Isaiah Effect”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 by Lisette Larkins in DIFFICULT PEOPLE

“If the mind is not the same as your true essence, it would seem then that you have been split in two. What has really occurred is that the still, quiet, powerful true essence of you has been covered up. The degree to which your essence is obscured equals the degree of difficulty in living or being around you. If your essence is almost entirely obscured, then the people around you suffer in the extreme because the mind has no natural ability in dealing with the circumstances that arise in the present moment. This is why the mind, when it’s chronically noisy, insists upon focusing on the past or the future, or on meaningless minutia.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 24th, 2017 by Sanaya Roman in PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

“Do you speak of prosperity, joy, and abundance or do you speak of pain, problems and woes? People form images of you as you speak to them. You may think that if you told everyone how abundant your life is when it isn’t you’d be lying—yet I will say if you tell everyone how abundant your life is, very shortly you will be telling the truth!

Watch your words and your energy as you move through the day. The instant you notice that your energy is dropping in any way, that doubts are creeping into your mind, that you are feeling bad about who you are, stop. Take a deep breath and look inward for a higher image. You broadcast images from moment to moment, and people pick them up and respond to them.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 21st, 2017 by Stuart Wilde in AFFIRMATIONS

“To shun negativity is to give it credence. Once you can accept your fears as a part of what you are and look at them in a detached and loving way, they begin to dissipate…Your life improves, and the ego comes to realize that disaster is not necessarily a fact of life.

We can look at the world from a finite, egocentric view and see mayhem and disaster and say, “That is terrible,” or we can look at it from an infinite view and see the beauty that there is in the learning process. Similarly, in your life, negativity assists you to become more Godlike but only if you do not struggle against it. The way to affirm your positive power is to laugh at your weakness and raise statues to your strengths.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 20th, 2017 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

“The polarity of love is fear. Fear is a current of energy that literally runs through your body and is produced when you feel cut off from the source of unconditional love. Every time you experience fear, ask yourself, “What is going on that I have substituted fear for love in this moment?” This kind of self-talk will bring you back to an awareness that fear is running through you because you have lost your alignment with love. In this moment of insight, send the fear energy out of your body by embracing unconditional love. In those moments of fear, your anxiety about failing, not receiving approval, your appearance, your grades, or whatever, can be traced to the absence of unconditional love. Go to your source when you are experiencing fear and you will find fears dissipating almost instantly.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 by Paul Ferrini in THE SILENCE OF THE HEART

“Pain is the great equalizer. It brings us all to our knees. It makes us more humble and sensitive to the needs of others. Pain is the greatest teacher on planet earth. It undermines all hierarchies. It dissolves social status and invalidates material riches. It brings everything up for healing.

If you have touched your own pain deeply, you know this. And you feel great compassion when you see others in pain. You do not need to push them away, nor do you need to try to fix them. You just hold them deeply in your heart. You offer them a hug and some words of encouragement. You know that they are going through.

The world builds people up and it takes people down. There is no permanence in the world. Fame and ignominy, poverty and riches, happiness and despair run hand in hand. You can’t experience one side without experiencing the other. If you think you can, you are in denial.”

Paul Ferrini, in “The Silence of the Heart”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 by David R. Hawkins in POWER VS. FORCE

“We may observe how throughout history, society has tried to “treat” social problems by legislative action, warfare, market manipulation, laws, and prohibitions – all manifestations of force – only to see these problems persist or recur despite the treatment. Although governments (or individuals) proceeding from positions of force are myopic, to the sensitive observer it eventually becomes obvious that conditions of social conflict won’t disappear until the underlying origins have been exposed and “healed.”

The difference between treating and healing is that in the former, the context remains the same, whereas in the latter, the clinical response is elicited by a change of context so as to bring about an absolute removal of the cause of the condition rather than the mere recovery from its symptoms. It’s one thing to prescribe an anti-hypertensive medication for high blood pressure; it’s quite another to expand the patient’s context of life so that he stops being angry and repressive.”

David R. Hawkins, in “Power vs. Force”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 17th, 2017 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

“If you resist delegating, you end up doing all kinds of things you don’t want or need to do. Then you wonder why you feel overwhelmed. Or why your business isn’t growing. Or why your children are so needy. It’s not them. It’s you.

Your way out is simple, but not easy: Admit that there are other people in the universe who can do some things as well as you. Maybe—hold on to your seat, now—even better than you. I know this is a radical, unreasonable, and heretical concept to suggest, but alas, it may be so…Very successful people are good delegators.”

Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks, And What You Can Do About It”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 14th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

“If there is no joy, ease or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love—even the most simple action.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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