BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 2nd, 2015 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

Posted on November 1, 2015 by jmaz479

“Spiritual beings do not order their lives to be “against’ anything. They are not against starvation, they are for feeding the people and seeing that everyone in the world is nutritionally satisfied. They work on what they are for, rather than fighting what they are against.

When you fight evil employing the methods of hatred and violence, you are part of the hatred and violence of evil itself, despite the rightness of your position in your own mind. If all the people in the world who are against terrorism and war were to shift their perspective to supporting and working for peace, terrorism and war would be eliminated. For every dollar we spend on peace, we spend two thousand on war.

Somehow our priorities are turned inside out. Spiritual beings do not get tied up with hatred. They are focused thoughtfully on what they are for and they translate that into action. Spiritual beings keep their thoughts on love and harmony, in the face of things they would love to see changed. ALL THAT YOU FIGHT WEAKENS YOU. All that you are for EMPOWERS you. In order to manifest miracles you must be totally focused on what you are for. Real Magic occurs in your life when you have eliminated the hatred that is in your life, even the hatred that you have against hatred.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 30th, 2015 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS

Posted on October 29, 2015 by jmaz479

“There is not a country and there is not a group of people on Earth that imagines itself to be an aggressor. Everyone who enters into war does so saying that they are defending something.

Do you see this now? I am making a repeated point of this because it is something you need to look at very closely. On your planet there are no “attackers”, only defenders. You achieve this interesting paradox by simply calling all attack a defense. In this way you are able to change your basic values from moment to moment as it suits you, without seeming to change them at all.

You get to kill people with impunity to obtain what you want by simply saying that you had no choice. You had to defend yourself.  All attackers see their actions in this way. Indeed, you have seen your own attacks on others exactly this way. Not just in war, but in every situation of conflict in your life, from battlefields to bedrooms, command centers to boardrooms. Nobody attacks, everybody defends.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 29th, 2015 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on October 28, 2015 by jmaz479

“Thoughts are, most assuredly, things. They are conceived in the mind and they travel through time and space like ripples in a pond, affecting all that they touch. Thoughts are the building blocks of our experience; the world that we see is the one that we have created with our thoughts. Edgar Cayce said, “Mind is the builder.” We think a thought, attach a feeling to it, and a circumstance in our life is attracted to it. If we want to see how got to be where we are in life, we need only to trace our experience back to our thoughts.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

Posted on October 27, 2015 by jmaz479

“As there are no problems in the NOW, there is no illness either. The belief in a label that someone attaches to your condition keeps the condition in place, empowers it, and makes it a seemingly solid reality out of a temporary imbalance. It gives it not only reality and solidity but also a continuity in time that it did not have before.

By focusing on this instant and refraining from labeling it mentally, illness is reduced to one of several of these factors: physical pain, weakness, discomfort, or disability. THAT is what you surrender to – now. You do not surrender to the idea of “illness”. Allow the suffering to force you into the present moment, into a state of intense conscious presence. Use it for enlightenment.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

Posted on October 26, 2015 by jmaz479

“When you contemplate the purpose of your life in the material plane, you will discover that the only thing you can do with this life is to give it away. You cannot hang on to anything in a constantly changing universe. You cannot lay claim to anything. It is all transitory. The only part of you that is permanent is the part that is unchanging, and that is the spiritual essence that resides in an unseen dimension. You will find your purpose and your strength when you see that you are in a relationship with all other living things, and that you are purposeful and peaceful when you serve in some capacity.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 26th, 2015 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS

Posted on October 25, 2015 by jmaz479

“Do you know one sign that you’ve woken up? It’s when you are asking yourself, “Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?” It really is. Because we are crazy. The whole world is crazy. Certifiable lunatics! The only reason we’re not locked up in an institution is that there are so many of us. So we’re crazy. We’re living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. We’re crazy to the point, I’ve come to believe, that if everybody agrees on something, you can be sure it’s wrong!

Every new idea, every great idea, when it first began was in a minority of one. That man called Jesus Christ – minority of one. Everybody was saying something different from what he was saying. The Buddha – minority of one. Everybody was saying something different from what he was saying. I think it was Bertrand Russell who said, “Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Awareness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 23rd, 2015 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on October 22, 2015 by jmaz479

“Look at everything that you think and feel and say and do that you do not like in yourself. Your negative emotions, your defects, your handicaps, your errors, your attachments and neuroses and hang-ups and yes, even your sins. Can you see every one of them as a necessary part of your development, holding out a promise of growth and grace for you and others, that would never have been there except for this thing that you so disliked?

And if you have caused pain and negative feelings to others, were you not at that moment a teacher to them, an instrument that offered them a seed for self-discovery and growth? Can you persist in this observation, in your observation till you see all of this as a happy fault, a necessary sin that brings to much good to you and to the world?”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

Posted on October 21, 2015 by jmaz479

“Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want. Otherwise, who would want to hang on to negativity, make themselves and other miserable, and create disease in the body? So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

If in the midst of negativity you are able to realize “At this moment I am creating suffering for myself” it will be enough to raise you above the limitations of conditioned egoic states and reactions. It will open up infinite possibilities which come to you when there is awareness – other vastly more intelligent ways of dealing with any situation.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on October 20, 2015 by jmaz479

“As some persons begin to discover the relationship between thoughts and events, they begin to be afraid of thinking negative thoughts, worrying, “Oh, no! I just had a thought of something bad happening to me – that means I will attract it!” This anxiety comes from an incomplete understanding of how thoughts attract events. There is no need to be concerned about stray thoughts of disaster or failure. They have no power unless we feed them with fear.

We are thinking many, many thoughts per second (Buddha said trillions) and we are also catching the thoughts of those around us. Occasional thoughts of negativity or failure may creep into our consciousness, but if we “throw them off” before we indulge in them, they cannot harm us. It is thought HABITS that count. Continually dwelling on the same thoughts, feelings, and mental pictures begets conditions. Keep your thought PATTERNS positive, and little negativity shall have no power to penetrate your established force field of positivity.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

Posted on October 19, 2015 by jmaz479

“No matter where you are, you can always turn on with some kind of warm feeling if you really want to. Turn on as you look out the kitchen window. Turn on as you walk out the door in the morning. Turn on as you slide into your wheelchair. Turn on as you board the subway. Turn on as you sweep the porch. Turn on as you make copies. Turn on as you walk down the fairway. Turn on as you feel the stock.

Until you can find that buzz of joy, or buzz of appreciation, or being in love, or gratitude, even when common sense says you haven’t a thing to be grateful for, you’re not flowing your energy to anywhere you want to go. But if you desire is to blast out into a new life for yourself, then learn to turn on any way you can, no matter what’s happening around you. NO MATTER WHAT!”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 19th, 2015 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

Posted on October 18, 2015 by jmaz479

“When we “depreciate” something, we devalue or diminish its worth. We depreciate things or people by expressing disapproval or dislike. When we appreciate something or someone, we give value with approval and praise. When we appreciate things, we mean to increase their worth.

It is impossible to feel grateful for something or someone we do not value. Begin to see things and people as they truly are rather than your assessment of them, which is an inner judgment. Each person is a child of God. See the unfolding of God in each person you meet. Then you are able to appreciate them. When you fail to do this, you depreciate them.

Your experience of misery, emptiness and fear is related to your depreciation of what shows up in your life. Think of everything that you criticize regularly and you will see where you have failed to appreciate. If you find fault with blacks or whites, Muslims or Jews, Iraqis or Americans, the young or the old, what you are doing is devaluing groups of people. The moment you participate in the depreciation process, you block your ability to experience gratitude and, consequently, you obstruct your ability to manifest prosperity, love and joy.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 16th, 2015 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Posted on October 15, 2015 by jmaz479

“Many of you spend more time and energy worrying about doing things than doing them. How often have you put off doing something, thinking it might take too much work, only to find that once you were in the mood to do it and got started, it was easier than you thought? If there is something you keep putting off, let it go for a while and stop making yourself wrong for not doing it. Sometimes pressuring yourself to do something makes it harder to start.

To create more time, watch your words and thoughts about time. Do you say to yourself or others, “I never have enough time; I am so pressured, and I wonder how I’ll get all this done?” Your words, thoughts, and beliefs are creating your reality, so begin by telling yourself you have all the time you need. Start saying such things as, “I have all the time I need; I do things in a relaxed, focused way.” Even if you don’t believe this at first, your words and thoughts will soon create this as your reality.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 15th, 2015 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT

Posted on October 14, 2015 by jmaz479

“If you use your awareness, you will see everything you believe, and this is how you live your life. Your life is totally dominated by the system of beliefs that you learned. Whatever you believe is creating the story that you’re experiencing; whatever you believe is creating the emotions that you’re experiencing. And you may really want to believe that you are what you believe, but that image is completely false. It’s not you.

The real you is unique and it’s beyond everything that you know, because the real you is the truth. You, the human, are the truth. Your physical presence is real. What you believe about yourself is not real, and it’s not important unless you want to create a better story for yourself. Truth or fiction; either way, the story that you’re creating is a work of art. It’s a wonderful story, a beautiful story, but it’s just a story, and it’s as close to the truth as you can get by using symbols.”

Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz, in “The Fifth Agreement”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in PRACTICING THE POWER OF NOW

Posted on October 13, 2015 by jmaz479

“Are you worried? Do you have many “what if” thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn’t exist. It’s a mental phantom. You can stop this health – and life corroding insanity simply by acknowledging the present moment.

BECOME AWARE OF YOUR BREATHING. Feel the air flowing in and out of your body. Feel your inner energy field. All that you ever have to deal with, cope with, in real life – as opposed to imaginary mind projections – is this moment. Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future – nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action, or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “Practicing The Power of Now”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 by Donald Altman in THE MINDFULNESS CODE

Posted on October 12, 2015 by jmaz479

“Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” When you think about it, the practice of Intentionally Centering Attention Now is about watching for the mental and emotional weeds that obstruct our view and clarity. Rather than letting those tumbling weeds within us cause an accident, we can choose to see them for what they are. Each weed guides us toward planting a beautiful garden of thoughts. As Emerson points out, weeds have a value when we look closely. Can the weeds of your life help you find the life you want?”

Donald Altman, in “The Mindfulness Code”

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