BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, February 10th, 2017 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

Posted on February 9, 2017 by jmaz479

“It seems to be that the key to happiness lies in getting over yourself. The happiest times of my life have been when I was more involved in something I was doing for others rather than in something I was doing for myself. For any perception that focuses only on our separate needs will ultimately breed fear, and any perception that focuses on our oneness with others breeds peace. Many people struggle and fail to find peace within themselves because they don’t realize who their ‘self’ is. That is why the ego is so dangerous: it would have us believe that we are separate, when in fact we’re not. We can’t have inner peace unless we feel complete within ourselves, and we can’t feel complete outside our connection with other people.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 9th, 2017 by Polly Campbell in HOW TO LIVE AN AWESOME LIFE

Posted on February 8, 2017 by jmaz479

“Just as there can be breathtaking beauty, intense love, and awesome moments even when things feel impossibly difficult and hard and sad, there will be times each day when we need to flex and stretch and adapt to the changes and challenges that are always there. When we do choose resilient attitudes and behaviors and rise up to look the challenge in the eye, we become more skilled. We become better at coping with some of this stuff. It isn’t that the pain or challenge is good in itself – divorce, bankruptcy, loss; no, not so good. But with adversity, we are pushed to learn and grow and adapt simply to survive. We become better at it. When you tap into your resilience, little by little, to move into and through the adversity, you might as well be putting on your superhero caps because there is nothing stronger than you in that moment.”

Polly Campbell, in “How to Live an Awesome 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 Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

Posted on February 7, 2017 by jmaz479

“There is a big difference between giving and sacrificing. Giving from a heart that is overflowing feels so good. Sacrificing does not feel good. Don’t confuse the two—they are diametrically opposed. One emits a signal of lack and the other emits a signal of more-than-enough. One feels good and one does not feel good. Sacrifice will eventually lead to resentment. Giving from a full heart is one of the most joyous things you can do, and the law of attraction will grab hold of that signal and flood even more into your life. You can feel the difference.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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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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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 by Eliza Mada Dalian in IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

Posted on February 6, 2017 by jmaz479

“Your ego-mind is like the bark of a tree. For a tree to survive and mature it needs the bark to protect it from the outside elements. When the tree has matured and begins to die, its bark starts to peel off. Don’t struggle with the bark and try and pull it off forcibly. As long as the tree is growing, the bark needs to stay attached to the tree. Accept your bark. When it is no longer needed, it will fall off on its own.

Don’t fight the mind with the mind. Look at how your ego stays alive by you needing to be in control. To break your mind’s pattern of needing to stay in control, be a Zorba once in a while. Go ‘”crazy” and risk losing your head by behaving completely differently from the way you would normally behave. This will help you break through your fears that keep you in need of control. To come out of the mind’s struggle and act with maturity and responsibility you must learn to act with awareness.”

Eliza Mada Dalian in “In Search of the Miraculous”

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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, February 6th, 2017 by Alan Cohen in DARE TO BE YOURSELF

Posted on February 5, 2017 by jmaz479

“If you want to get what you want, you have to tell the truth about what you want. We reach a certain point on our path where we cannot compromise, minimize or deny our heart’s desire. It is not humble to ask for less than you believe you deserve; it is arrogance. False humility is a ploy of the ego; when we act smaller than God created use to be, we deny the grandeur with which we are imbued. True humility is to become an open vessel into which the riches of the universe may be poured, and then overflowed to a waiting world.

The riches to which I refer are not just the material ones; the forms of this world at best remind us of our spiritual wealth. The real riches of life are love, joy, exuberance, delight, vision, and a life with heart. If you are not receiving all of these, as well as the material things you desire, you must stretch to tell a bigger truth about what you really want. Then turn your request over to the universe. If your request is right for you, you shall have it. If it is not right for you, believe me, you don’t want it.”

Alan Cohen, in “Dare to Be Yourself”

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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, February 3rd, 2017 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on February 2, 2017 by jmaz479

“Take a look at the lives of many who are most admired in history. Those who were fixed on revenge led us into war after war, killing indiscriminately, destroying everything in their path, all in the name of blame and anger. How can anyone make a positive contribution and tune into the force of love when he is preoccupied with vengeance? Impossible.

Listen to the words of those you admire, and rather than put a label on yourself such as Christian, Jew, Moslem, Buddhist, or whatever, instead make a commitment to being Christ-like, God-like, Buddha-like, and Muhammad-like. We, and all of the world, will be much better off for that commitment, and we will begin living forgiveness every day, rather than only talking about it in church, and then heading back to our daily lives to help build more weapons, sue our neighbors, and judge those who are not in geographic proximity to us.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It, When You Believe It”

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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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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 by Vadim Zeland in REALITY TRANSURFING I-V

Posted on February 1, 2017 by jmaz479

“From early childhood we are convinced that the aging process is inevitable. Over the course of a person’s life they receive endless confirmation of the aging process from their own personal experience and the experience of others. At every birthday celebration theatrical demonstrations of good wishes are made calling for good health and longevity but everyone knows that these good wishes mean nothing and have absolutely no impact on the script. On the contrary, translated into the language of fact what these well-meaning words are really saying is that your health is far from what it used to be and the years are passing. These are the slight oscillations or flirtations of a destructive pendulum (*i.e., a negative thought energy).

Sooner or later you will begin to feel that ten years or so ago you had so much more strength and energy. You will want to share these thoughts with someone else. That someone will instantly appear to enthusiastically develop the topic of conversation. The theme of illness is no less popular in polite small talk now than the weather. By participating in such conversations you radiate energy at the same frequency as the destructive pendulum, i.e., you agree to play the game.”

Vadim Zeland, in “Reality Transurfing Steps I-V”

(*added by “Ponder on This” compiler)

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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, February 1st, 2017 by Wayne W. Dyer in WISDOM OF THE AGES

Posted on January 31, 2017 by jmaz479

“This body of yours is like a curriculum in school, only this is your curriculum to God. This is your house of God, and it is in this body, while it is here on this planet, that God can be realized. To find anything about this house of God to be vile or disgusting is to sully the temple that is the one place in the universe where you know you can realize God.

No one can stop the process that is the ever-changing body. No one can alter the fundamental structure of the body. You live in something that has an invisible future pull, taking it where its nature will take it. Do not detest any part of it unless you wish to deny the wisdom that created you.

Treat your body like a guest who visits and then must leave. While it is here don’t neglect it, don’t poison it. Honor it, welcome it, and allow it to take its course which is ultimately to leave as it came, back to where it came from. Make it fun to watch your body go through its designated phases. Be in awe of every inch of it.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Wisdom of the Ages”

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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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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on January 30, 2017 by jmaz479

“Because we are creatures of habit and don’t like to break from the routine (even that which isn’t very good for us), find simple ways to change the way you see things. Drive a different way to work. Park in a spot farthest from the door at the supermarket and, while you are making your way across the parking lot, notice the things lying on the ground: money, old lottery tickets, and keys, whatever. Doing something different forces your brain to consider new options and ways of seeing the world in which you live. Set the alarm an hour early and just listen to the birds greet the day. Stay up an hour later (with the television off) and just sit. All of these little ways of increasing your sense of curiosity will become a new habit and help you to construct a different pattern that makes each day unique.”

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 Monday, January 30th, 2017 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on January 29, 2017 by jmaz479

“Money is not the answer to our prosperity problems. Wisdom is the answer. The only thing more valuable than money is knowing what to do with it. If someone does not know how to use money wisely, no amount of money will help them. If someone has a good money consciousness, they can take a tiny seed and grow it into a lush garden. If they have a poor money consciousness, they can take a huge gift and squander it in short order. Money is not the root of all evil; ignorance is.”

Alan Cohen, in “Relax into Wealth”

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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, January 27th, 2017 by Gregg Braden in THE ISIAH EFFECT

Posted on January 26, 2017 by jmaz479

“We choose the conditions of our lives through our feelings, the invisible union of our thoughts and emotions. As we imagine an outcome in our mind’s eye and become aware of the emotion that is fueling our imagination, our feeling is created. To understand what we have created, we are invited to simply look at the world around us.

How are we to create money, relationships, and health if the feelings that empower our creation our “crummy”and “yuck?” Feelings of unworthiness fuel the creation of the very experience we least choose to have in our lives, the expression of not being worthy.”

Gregg Braden, in “The Isaiah Effect”

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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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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 26th, 2017 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOUR SACRED SELF

Posted on January 25, 2017 by jmaz479

“Let go of all the beliefs that convince you of your inadequacies and shortcomings. Clean out that closet of worn-out loyalties to what you can and cannot do. Just open yourself up right in this moment. Be like a clear, blank slate. Nothing is imprinted or projected onto this slate.

It begins with no. It ends with now. There is no guilt about erasing your personal history. There is great love and respect for all that you have learned up until now, but now is blank and, most important, open to all possibilities. No restrictions, no limitations, only the willingness to experience God and the entire divinity of the universe within yourself.

Your life is no longer to be constrained by what you’ve known as your personal history. Your individual soap opera has received its cancellation notice. In the instant that you drop that personal history you become eternal. You always have been. You always will be.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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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, January 25th, 2017 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

Posted on January 24, 2017 by jmaz479

“To love yourself fully you must focus on a new dimension of You. You must focus on the presence inside of you. Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is the perfection of You. That presence is the real you. As you focus on that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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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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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 by Mark Nepo in THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Posted on January 23, 2017 by jmaz479

“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are, when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed, and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances for joy. It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. In this way, our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world, but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold, and the car handle feels wet, and the kiss good-bye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.”

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 Monday, January 23rd, 2017 by David R. Hawkins in POWER VS. FORCE

Posted on January 22, 2017 by jmaz479

“The tragic downfall of many geniuses, after they’ve been discovered and celebrated by the public, illustrates that there is success, and then there is Success. The former frequently jeopardizes life, while the latter enhances it. True success enlivens and supports the spirit; it has nothing to do with isolated achievements, but instead relates to being accomplished as a total person, and attaining a lifestyle that benefits not only the individual but everyone around them. Truly successful people’s lives are empowered by the context of their accomplishments.”

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

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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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