PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 10th, 2016 by Vadim Zeland in REALITY TRANSURFING STEPS I-V

Posted on October 9, 2016 by jmaz479

“Allow yourself the luxury of deserving the best. If someone tries to persuade you that you must work for the good of someone or something else do not believe them. If someone tries to prove to you that everything in life comes from hard work alone do not believe them. If someone is imposing a harsh battle on you to secure your place in the sun, do not believe them. If they try to tell you what your place is, do not believe them. If someone tries to draw you into a religious sect or community because you can make ‘an essential contribution to the common goal’, do not believe them. If they tell you that you have to live your entire life in poverty because that is how you were born, do not believe them. If they tell you that you have limited options, do not believe them.”

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

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Compiler’s Note: Early this year I posted a passage from this book and have been intending to post more, as I truly have found it to be a profound work. The challenge in excerpting from this work is that the content all hangs together and the author uses terminology at the beginning that is used regularly throughout it. I can say without reservation that in all my 25+ years of reading personal and spiritual growth books this work is in my top five of the best I’ve ever come across. This is not to suggest that it’s for everyone, because it probably wouldn’t be a good book for someone just embarking on a path of self-discovery, nor would it appeal to the highly religious. With that said, with those clarifications in mind I HIGHLY recommend this book as a personal growth resource. (Note: The Russian to English translation is poor in spots but the content is so valuable it didn’t matter one jot to me.)

Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, October 7th, 2016 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on October 6, 2016 by jmaz479

“Look at the world and be satisfied. See it as eternal, and understand that you don’t have to push against the way it is. If you don’t like things, walk away. Generally speaking, it’s too much effort to change things. You’ve probably tried it with your relatives. They are often the toughest to change. You’ve got to love them as they are. Unconditional love is complete acceptance. If I love you unconditionally, I accept you. If you love me unconditionally, you accept me.

That’s easy to do when you’re being nice to me and I’m being nice to you, but what if I’m treating you badly? What if you’re treating me badly? Then you have to become a big person, not be sucked into emotion when people treat you in this fashion. That is the test.

The point to remember is, you can never be free until you disengage. The way it is, is the way it is. Tell yourself that seven times an hour if need be.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, October 6th, 2016 by Jonathan Parker in THE SOUL SOLUTION

Posted on October 5, 2016 by jmaz479

“Your life as it is now has emerged from the thoughts, words, actions, beliefs, and feelings you’ve energized in the past. Although thinking about what your life has been is a good start, it’s also important to have an idea of where you want to go if you ever expect to get there. If you don’t have that focus, then rather than living a life that is self-determined, you’ll remain subject to the patterns of your past.

Only when you start to awaken to truths deeper than what your five senses reveal will you realize how you arrived at where you are today. Everything you think and do each day contributes to the stories you tell yourself about your life, which you subsequently find yourself living by, especially on a subconscious level. And the stories you tell yourself today are the scripts you’ll live by tomorrow – unless you wake up and rewrite them.

This understanding definitely motivates you to be more mindful about what you think, say, and do. This insight keeps you attentive and wise, for you learn to observe what you’re doing that creates what you don’t want and to discover how to create what you really do want instead.”

Jonathan Parker, in “The Soul Solution”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, October 5th, 2016 by David R. Hawkins in POWER VS. FORCE

Posted on October 4, 2016 by jmaz479

“There are many sides to the question of karma, but every choice of who and how to be is a choice of great consequence, as all of our choices reverberate through the ages. Thousands of reports of near-death experiences, as reflected in such bestselling books as Dannion Brinkley’s “Saved by the Light” or B.J. Eadie’s “Embraced by the Light,” confirm that we shall eventually have to accept responsibility for every thought, word, and deed we generate, and will re-experience exactly the same suffering we’ve caused. It’s in this sense that we create our own heaven or hell.

The universe holds its breath as we choose, instant by instant, which pathway to follow; for the universe, the very essence of life itself, is highly conscious. Every act, thought, and choice adds to a permanent mosaic; our decisions ripple through the universe of consciousness to affect the lives of all. Lest this idea be considered either mystical or fanciful, let’s remember that fundamental tenet of the new theoretical physics: Everything in the universe is connected with everything else.”

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 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. 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, October 4th, 2016 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on October 3, 2016 by jmaz479

“Wanting something dearly need not be a source of tension or frustration. It can be a source of rich empowerment. When you deeply desire a goal, it mobilizes a great deal of energy. When that energy hits a resistance within you, the collision is painful. If you can release your resistance even a little, that energy will move on your behalf. The game of success is less about getting good things to happen, and more about letting good things happen. At this moment a mighty river of energy is moving inside you toward your dreams. You have also constructed a dam of greater or lesser dimension that impedes the river. Open up even a tiny gate of the dam, and the river will begin to take you where you want to go.”

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 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. 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, October 3rd, 2016 by Richard Eyre in SPIRITUAL SERENDIPITY

Posted on October 2, 2016 by jmaz479

“We seek to control everything when real spirituality is lodged in letting the spirit control us – in noticing the beauty and opportunity of circumstance, in finding good currents instead of swimming upstream, in seeking and accepting guidance from our ideas, our impressions, and our insights – in becoming sagacious enough to find the joy of spontaneity and inspiration, the adventure of the unexpected, the attitude of spiritual serendipity.

We seek ownership (which, as a paradigm, always brings with it envy and jealousy or conceit and pride) when true spirituality is obtained from understanding that we own nothing and God owns all, from seeking, instead, treasures of heaven, from adopting the attitude of spiritual stewardship.”

Richard Eyre, in “Spiritual Serendipity”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, September 30th, 2016 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in PULLING YOUR OWN STRINGS

Posted on September 29, 2016 by jmaz479

“Having to prove yourself to others means being controlled by the other to whom you must show the proof. Quietly effective behavior involves no such need for proving yourself. As a child, you were full of “watch me” behavior. You wanted everyone, mostly your parents, to watch as you practiced diving into the pool, or skating backwards, or riding your bicycle, or whatever new experience you were having with growing wiser.

You needed those eyes on you then, because you developed your self-concept on the basis of how significant ‘other people’ reacted to you. But those days are over. You are not a developing child who must be noticed or who must constantly prove himself (or herself*) – unless you are one of those adults who still covets the approval of everyone you meet.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Pulling Your Own Strings”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, September 29th, 2016 by Heather Elliott in SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT DAY

Posted on September 28, 2016 by jmaz479

“Reality is not just happening in your mind – you are actually creating the physical world that matches those thoughts. Because we fell asleep and became unconscious to our role in creating our lives and the truth about how it all works, we fell victim to them. Waking up to the truth will set us free! Your mind is the FILM SCRIPT from which your reality emerges.

Think of your mind like the film in a movie projector. And then think of your observer self – the part of you paying attention to your world – as the projector itself. It is the action of being alive in the world that makes you the observer and, whether you acknowledge it or not, MIND is the film script that it is showing in the theatre of your life. You are, indeed, the most fabulous reality TV show playing – and once you really get this idea, life becomes a whole lot more interesting.

What is Truth, then? Whatever you decide it is!”

Heather Elliott, in “Same Shit, Different Day”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, September 28th, 2016 by David R. Hawkins in POWER VS. FORCE

Posted on September 27, 2016 by jmaz479

“Traditional medicine generally holds that stress is the cause of many human disorders and illnesses. The problem with this diagnosis is that it doesn’t accurately address the source of the stress. It looks to blame external circumstances, without realizing that all stress is internally generated by one’s attitudes. I must emphasize again that it isn’t life’s events, but one’s reactions to them, that activates the symptoms of stress. As we’ve already discovered, a divorce can bring about agony or relief; and challenges on the job can result in stimulation or anxiety, depending on whether one’s supervisor is perceived to be a teacher or an ogre.”

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 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. 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, September 27th, 2016 by Wayne W. Dyer in THERE’S A SPIRITUAL SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM

Posted on September 26, 2016 by jmaz479

“There is a powerful line in A Course in Miracles which reminds me of this lesson: “It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters, and circumstances are helpful.” Great learning is an understatement! It takes great faith and courage to begin to view our lives in this way.

How strongly do you desire to truly know, beyond a doubt, that every problem you experience including the very worst thing in your life, actually contains the seeds of the best thing? We can learn to view every crisis as an opportunity, which wouldn’t necessarily make life easier, but would make it more satisfying. We would never be able to view anything as a negative occurrence, because we’d see everything as useful information.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, September 26th, 2016 by Wayne W. Dyer in THERE’S A SPIRITUAL SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM

Posted on September 25, 2016 by jmaz479

“Despair is an attitude, experienced in the mind. It is a way of looking at a life situation and feeling hopeless. There is no despair in the world. You cannot bring home a bucket of despair, there are only people thinking despairing thoughts. This is a crucial point to understand. There may be deplorable circumstances that exist in your life and in the lives of others yet in and of themselves they are just plain circumstances, the facts of a life. Despair itself is a mental process that sizes up and views a situation as awful. When you just recognize despair as being a mental attitude you begin a process of bringing hope to the inner vision of despair and dissolving it.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, September 23rd, 2016 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY

Posted on September 22, 2016 by jmaz479

“Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt. Everything other people say to you about yourself is a reflection of a voice within you. What other people say to you also reflects how they speak to themselves. If you find people critical, first ask, is there a part of you that is criticizing yourself?

As you let go of that self-criticism, you will experience less criticism from others. Remember also that what people say to you is a reflection of who they are and how they see the world. They may criticize you because they are critical of themselves. See their actions and words as a statement of their beliefs and learn to remain calm and centered.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, 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. 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, September 22nd, 2016 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

Posted on September 21, 2016 by jmaz479

“Whatever you include in your vibration for sixteen seconds or longer is on its way to you, whether you like it or not. So when you’re talking about all the things you don’t want, and flowing out only sixteen seconds of feeling each time you talk about one of them, that thing has now become a part of you, part of your everyday vibration. Pretty soon you’re living it…talking about it…complaining about it…stewing over it…and making it an even stronger match to your daily vibration than it was in the first place. You are vibrating with the very thing you do not want.

Now that thing can’t leave you. It is part of you. No matter how much you keep grumbling over it or worrying about it, it cannot leave! It is now included within your everyday vibration. And the more you live it, focus on it, and brood over it, the stronger your vibration becomes to match and hold this think you want so badly to get rid of. ”

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

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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, September 21st, 2016 by Eric Butterworth in DISCOVER THE POWER WITHIN YOU

Posted on September 20, 2016 by jmaz479

“The story is told of a precocious young lad standing on a street corner. A minister, passing by, stopped for a moment to play his role. Patting the lad on the head he said, “Sonny boy, who made you?”’ The young fellow looked up and said, somewhat impatiently, “Well, to tell you the truth sir, I ain’t done yet.”

And that is the Truth about you. You are not done yet. No matter what may be the level of your experiences at the moment, you are not done yet. There is more in you. And the experience itself is an opportunity to grow through as you go through the challenge.”

Eric Butterworth, in “Discover the Power Within You”

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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, September 20th, 2016 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

Posted on September 19, 2016 by jmaz479

“Heroes are born when fear dies. We all seem to recognize when someone has transcended, even if for just a moment, the limitations of their beliefs of mortality and weakness. We admire these individuals, for they remind us of our transcendent nature. We are comforted somehow to know that we all possess such capacity for greatness and that ours, too, will be waiting on us when we need it most. This greatness is real, we have seen it in all types of humans, but the idea that it is waiting for you is misleading. Greatness waits for no person, but falls on he who seeks it.

Greatness is only waiting for you to invite it in, believing, and allow what comes. When I speak of greatness, I am speaking of fulfillment in any endeavor you choose with your heart. I am speaking of surrendering to the heart and following wherever it may lead you. I am speaking of letting go of fear and replacing it with thoughts of faith, gratitude, trust, and courage; for it is these thoughts that will bring these things into your life.”

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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