PONDER on THIS for Thursday, September 10th, 2015 by Alan Cohen in DARE TO BE YOURSELF

Posted on September 9, 2015 by jmaz479

“It is said that if we want to be truly powerful we need but command what is happening to happen. While there is a humorous note in this advice, there is also a profound wisdom. We are most powerful when we are aligned with the flow of the universe. To deny what is, would be like running out on your front lawn in the morning and commanding the sun to reverse direction and set in the east. No matter how strong your wish for this to be so, your chances of succeeding are very slim.

Our attempts to make life other than it is, are just as foolish and ineffectual. To try to change people to suit us or fight against unchangeable situations is debilitating and useless. If something cannot be changed, our most powerful position is to go with it and find a blessing that we could not see when we wanted to be in charge.”

Alan Cohen, in “Dare to Be Yourself”‘

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 by White Eagle in THE PATH OF THE SOUL

Posted on September 8, 2015 by jmaz479

“Many successful people – the good, religious people as well as the materially-minded – are tempted to believe that their success is entirely due to themselves. They think how clever they are! They forget that without the help and blessing of God nothing can be accomplished. Not through man alone but by the will of God do conditions arise in a human life destined to give the soul opportunities to serve God.

Many worldly people become intoxicated with their own material success, and this can also happen on the spiritual path. People can become charged with spiritual pride, inwardly thinking how good they are and how nice they are to know! They have indeed been carried up into a high mountain.

When the soul is thus raised, the tempter, which is the lower self, now whispers, “How wonderful I am! It is “I” who have attained this spiritual height. “I” have made this progress – all by myself!” But the soul who would triumph over these three temptations must know that whatever it achieves spiritually, it is of itself nothing and can do nothing; and that all the good that is in it is of God.”

White Eagle, in “The Path of the Soul”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 by Donald Altman in ONE MINUTE MINDFULNESS

Posted on September 7, 2015 by jmaz479

“The sky and the moon are waiting for your gaze. Their spaciousness invites us to a revolutionary perspective, the big view, the right now. To gaze at the sky and the moon is to leave the thinking, discursive, calculating, judging mind behind and to expand our awareness beyond the limited self to vast consciousness, of which we are an integral part. Stargazing and moongazing do not have to be an escape from the mundane; instead, they can be a way to grasp that the ordinary is also sublime when we become fully present to it.

The practice of gazing at the sky and the moon brings two important things into focus. First, it lets us embrace wholeness and unity, balancing out our personal, limited, and separate view of existence. British philosopher and Zen practitioner, Alan Watts, described this well when he said, “You are breathing. The wind is blowing. The trees are waving. Your nerves are tingling. The individual and the universe are inseparable, but the curious thing is, very few people are aware of it. Everything in nature depends on everything else. So it’s interconnected…When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there, your looking at you.”

Donald Altman, in “One Minute Mindfulness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, September 7th, 2015 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in GIFTS FROM EYKIS

Posted on September 6, 2015 by jmaz479

“You have no reason to blame anyone for how you are treated, and yet most of you think that the problems you face and the treatment you receive is the result of other people’s lack of consideration. You have the inherent power to teach anyone how you want to be treated. When you simply sit back and accept being abused, you are responsible for permitting that abuse to be heaped on you.

I’ve noted that those people who refuse to be abused, insist on respectful treatment, and react swiftly and firmly when they are mistreated receive the respect that so many “blamers” never see in their lives.

Teach those around you through behavior not empty arguments, that you will tolerate nothing less than respect. This is never difficult for those who have self-respect, since a person with high self-esteem expects the same kind of treatment from others that they expect of themselves. Respect yourself, and you’ll receive respect. If you receive disrespect, look to yourself and ask that most important question, “Why have I allowed myself to be treated this way?” instead of “Why are they doing this to me again?”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Gifts from Eykis”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, September 4th, 2015 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on September 3, 2015 by jmaz479

“You stupidly squander so much energy trying to rearrange the world. If changing the world is your vocation in life, go right ahead and change it, but do not harbor the illusion that this is going to make you happy. What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As well as search for an eagle’s nest on the bed of an ocean, as search for happiness in the world outside of you.

So if it is happiness that you seek you can stop wasting your energy trying to cure your baldness, or build up an attractive body, or change your residence or job or community or lifestyle or even your personality. Do you realize that you could change every one of these things, you could have the finest looks and the most charming personality and the most pleasant of surroundings and still be unhappy?”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 by Lisette Larkins in DIFFICULT PEOPLE

Posted on September 2, 2015 by jmaz479

“Once awakened, no thought goes unquestioned. Thoughts are recognized, when they cause suffering, to be lies; or at the very least, to be suspect until they are unraveled as a misunderstanding by a mind that can do nothing other than be offended. Thoughts are concepts and they produce an active mind. Even thoughts that contain seemingly altruistic ideas are still noisy thoughts. Simply attend a town meeting about how to obtain peace on Earth and you understand this point. Conversely, a deep sense of peace that arises from within is usually elicited by a feeling, not a thought, that comes from the source of life rather than from the ego. Again, a murderous thought is no different from a conceptual thought of universal brotherhood: busy mind or quiet mind is the choice.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on September 1, 2015 by jmaz479

“The force that opposes determination is INERTIA. Inertia is not a static thing; it is a “dynamic force.” Like any force, it tends to magnify itself and gain momentum until or unless it is superseded by another force stronger than itself. If you jog every day, and then stop for a day, and then two days, and then three, the momentum of inertia will make it more and more difficult for you to re-initiate your practice. This is how we can get sidetracked from our dreams.

We slip into the undertow of inertia, and then forsake our commitment. It takes a strong will to buck inertia, but overcome it we must. When we refuse to be intimidated by unchosen habit, and we do just one act of our practice again, the momentum of the ‘practice’ will increase, and it will be easier and easier, and not harder and harder to continue.”

Alan Cohen in, “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 1st, 2015 by Polly Campbell in IMPERFECT SPIRITUALITY

Posted on August 31, 2015 by jmaz479

“Resistance, in a very real way, shows up as blocks in your life. It appears in the form of the same old problems, ongoing arguments, issues that never seem to resolve but always seem to matter – the twenty pounds you are unable to lose, the resolutions you repeat annually, the excuses you make. Because our pockets of resistance become familiar behavior and a habitual way of living, we often fail to notice that we’re resisting at all.

Once you do tune in and gently look for the places resistance may be rooted in your life, you’ll see some distinctive patterns. Resistance is almost always focused around our fears.”

Polly Campbell, in “Imperfect Spirituality”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 31st, 2015 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS

Posted on August 30, 2015 by jmaz479

“Neale Donald Walsch: If religion can make people ecstatic, why can’t it heal the world?

God: Because organized religion as you currently create it is largely an exclusive experience. It is exclusive to the individual or the group experiencing it. You have not found a way to include everyone in the same experience – that is, society as a whole – because you have not found a way for everyone to agree on how the experience should be experienced. Indeed, you disagree on this question so dramatically that it has caused you to interrupt your own ecstasy to express your disapproval of another for not experiencing their ecstasy in the same way. You have argued with each other, battled with each other; and killed each other in your anger over this ecstasy.

Neale Donald Walsch: Why? Why have we done this? And why can’t religions heal this?

God: Organized religions by their nature exclude as many as they include. This would be non-problematic if religions were tolerant of those they exclude, yet far too often this is not the case.  Religions, which you count on to teach tolerance, have not learned how to practice it, and so, teach just the opposite.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “The New Revelations”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 28th, 2015 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on August 27, 2015 by jmaz479

“Know that you are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be. Know that if you use your mental energy to see yourself spending your days doing what you truly love, and if you keep that thought uppermost in your mind, that is what will expand for you. It has to.

You were very likely taught that you choose your career in the early part of your life, and then you live out your life doing what you were trained to do. But is it sensible to continue doing something that someone eighteen or twenty years old chose years ago? Would you go to an eighteen-year-old today for vocational counseling?

Continuing to do regularly what you dislike is going to expand scarcity in your life. You will never escape from the trap unless you are willing to shift the internal focus of your thoughts to what you love doing. Put that thought in your mind and make it the central feature of your thoughts, even if you refuse to make the move today. Stay with the thought. The more you focus on it, the more it will expand”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 27th, 2015 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION

Posted on August 26, 2015 by jmaz479

“Pay attention to whatever feedback you get from the way things unfold in your external experience. See how things work out when you follow your own inner guidance. If things don’t seem to be working out, it may be because you are not yet fully attuned with your inner guidance. You may be following other feelings instead. The best indication that you are in tune with your inner truth is that you feel more alive as a result. Also, things generally work more easily. Doors open. There’s a sense of following a certain flow of energy.”

Shakti Gawain, in “The Path of Transformation”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Posted on August 25, 2015 by jmaz479

“You do not become strong by seeking those situations that keep you sheltered and protected; you become strong by learning to navigate all the different kinds of weather, finding your strength and direction from within. If you have felt any resentment because you had a difficult childhood, let go of it, and appreciate all the strength you gained from the situation you grew up with.

At various times in your life you may have been around people whom you had trouble loving. Look at the circumstances you have in your life right now. If you are around people or energies you aren’t comfortable with, see them as offering you opportunities for spiritual growth by teaching you more about becoming transparent. The thoughts and feelings of people you have the most trouble harmonizing with are the very ones that will give you the most growth when you do learn to be transparent to them. That is why you have attracted these people into your life.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 by Stuart Wilde in AFFIRMATIONS

Posted on August 24, 2015 by jmaz479

“Life was never meant to be a struggle. Yet everything is designed to control us and to limit us. The light (which is truth) is not visible to us, so we make rules and regulations, partly in an effort to process fear, and partly in the hope that we will somehow charm the light into our life. In doing so, we restrict ourselves terribly, for the light does not come out of do’s and don’ts – its currency is absolute forgiveness, unbounded compassion, endless patience, and love. It expresses this love for us by honoring us in leaving us alone, to be as silly as we want for as long as we want.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 24th, 2015 by Stuart Wilde in LIFE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE A STRUGGLE

Posted on August 23, 2015 by jmaz479

“Do you remember being told as a child that if you wanted to make it in life you would have to work hard? That life involves pain and struggle; that you’d have to earn love and acceptance; and that, if you wanted to come out on top, you’d have to put in an incredible effort? I certainly remember my mother saying to me, “Struggle ennobles the soul.”

But there is a big difference between struggle and effort. Our physical condition as humans involves effort, but struggle is effort laced with emotion and desperation. Now, if over a period of years, you’ve laid down several hundred thousand thoughts in your subconscious that say “Life is a struggle,” naturally you would project that from your inner feelings. Even if you weren’t consciously aware of that aspect of your inner self, the thought would still lie deep within you and show up constantly in your life.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Life Was Never Meant to be a Struggle”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 21, 2015 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK 3

Posted on August 20, 2015 by jmaz479

“You must understand that humans have many fear-based religions whose teachings surround a doctrine of a God who is to be worshiped and feared. It was through fear that your entire Earth society reformed itself from the matriarchy into the patriarchy. It was through fear that the early priests got people to ‘mend their wicked ways’ and ‘heed the word of the Lord’. It was through fear that churches gained, and controlled, their membership.

One church even insisted that God would punish you if you did not go to church every Sunday. Not going to church was declared a sin. And not just any church. One had to attend one particular church. If you went to a church of a different denomination, that, too, was a sin. This was an attempt at CONTROL, pure and simple, using fear. The amazing thing is, it worked. Hell, it still works.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Conversations with God Book 3”

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