PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on February 9, 2015 by jmaz479

“While many people fear that following their joy is a sign of selfishness or egotism, they do not realize that they have a long way to go before they would become self-indulgent. More people suffer from a sense of unworthiness than from arrogance. The remedy for unworthiness is practicing self-love. Consider every invitation that comes your way and every act you undertake an opportunity to feed your spirit. The items you purchase (or don’t); the job you go to (or don’t); the relationships you enter into (or don’t), and the vacations you take (or don’t) all demonstrate how much you value yourself and your heart’s desires.

Consider the money you spend as an investment in yourself: you are buying stock in a company you believe in, you recognize your vast potential, and you want to get in on the ground floor of your achievements. I heard a woman report, “I love my husband so much that I would do just about anything if I knew it would make him happy.” Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from the inside out.”

Alan Cohen, in “Relax into Wealth”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, February 9th, 2015 by Mada Eliza Dalian in HEALING THE BODY & AWAKENING CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE DALIAN METHOD

Posted on February 8, 2015 by jmaz479

“True health is beyond your thoughts, emotions, and physical body. Even if your body is challenged with illness and has reached the end of its lifespan, your being can never get old, sick, die, or disappear from existence. Your being stays forever young, healthy, and whole. True health and happiness, therefore, can only be found within the silent presence of your being.

You live in your being twenty-fours a day, even when you are asleep. In fact, you can never be outside of it. When you lose awareness of your being and identify with fluctuating thoughts, emotions, desires, and attachments to people and things, you forget to see that life is simply a playground to help you become conscious of who you truly are.”

Mada Eliza Dalian, in “Healing the Body & Awakening Consciousness With The Dalian Method”

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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 6th, 2015 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jmaz479

“Acknowledge all of the abundance you already have! Give thanks for your friends and family. Give thanks for the trees, sun, beaches, rivers, mountains, and birds. Give thanks for the food you eat, the clothes you wear, your house or apartment, your car, the money in your pocket and in the bank. This is a wonderful exercise. It is so simple and it is so powerful.

There is a basic principle operating each time you do this. The principle is: WHATEVER YOU FOCUS YOUR THOUGHTS ON EXPANDS. The more you notice and acknowledge all of the things that you have, the more you will receive.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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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 5th, 2015 by P.M.H. Atwater in DYING TO KNOW YOU

Posted on February 4, 2015 by jmaz479

“Always there is life. We cannot escape ourselves or what we have builded ourselves to be, as death ends nothing but the physical body we wear. The soul, who we are, continues. Each moment is precious and a moment well lived enriches all our forevers, and forever can be counted upon. The purpose of history is not to limit our tomorrows but to free them, for, as we learn the lessons the past would teach us, we are freed from the high cost of deception and deceit, free to reinvent our world, not be imprisoned by it.

The bottom line is not profit, it never was. The bottom line is service plus long-term investment in the education and the uplifting of others. The law of entropy only applies when greed or indifference underlies our motivation.”

P.M.H. Atwater, in “Dying to Know You”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

Posted on February 3, 2015 by jmaz479

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. You cannot go out with a bucket and bring home some of these things. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they did. But there are people acting stressfully, angrily and fearfully in the world. Those actions stem exclusively from a way of thinking. Thus, if you have those elements within you, it is because that is how you have chosen to process the events and circumstances of your physical universe.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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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 3rd, 2015 by Sanaya Roman in PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

Posted on February 2, 2015 by jmaz479

“The busier your mind is, the more you are apt to be unconsciously affected by energy. The more silent your inner dialogue when you are listening to another, the more you can direct the outcome, and be aware of your body and emotions in the interaction. When you are with others, practice being. Practice not trying to do anything, think of the sounds, the smells, the room, the energy interaction at a level beyond words. Monitor how you feel and observe what is being said. You will find a wealth of information flowing into you.

You may be surprised as you begin seeing the kind of relationships you have been having, the connections you thought were high and healing but were not. You may, for the first time, truly see the energy others are giving or not giving you. Be aware of the world you exist in. Be aware of the messages that are constantly being sent to you by the loving, higher forces of the universe, and most of all, pay attention to yourself.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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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 2nd, 2015 by M. Scott Peck in THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED AND BEYOND

Posted on February 1, 2015 by jmaz479

“Humankind does not have the power to make the sun rise or set. We can predict and respond to the weather, but we do not determine what it will be day to day. I do not know how to create an iris or a rose; I can only steward one. So it is with myself. Presumably even more complicated than a flower, I could not possibly have imagined myself into existence. But to a considerable extent I can choose to decently nurture or not nurture myself. In other words, while I cannot be my own creator, I can play a role as co-creator.

The concept of “co-creatorship” and the responsibility it entails have become quite popular in theology in recent years. But I have not read of this responsibility being extended to its ultimate. The fact is that we humans are free to choose our own vision of God, and no choice we make can be as potent in our personal lives or our role as agents of society. So we come to a crescendo of paradox. On the one hand, God is unquestionably our creator. On the other, in choosing the kind of God we believe in, we are, in a sense, creating God, not only for ourselves but also for others who will see God reflected in our beliefs, our actions, and in our very spirit.”

M. Scott Peck, M.D., in “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond”

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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 30th, 2015 by Deepak Chopra in THE WAY OF THE WIZARD

Posted on January 29, 2015 by jmaz479

“Countless people are devastated when they lose their jobs, when their children grow up and leave home, when a beloved spouse dies. Their sense of “I” is so bound up in names, labels and roles that they haven’t made time to find out who they really are.

Being fully human makes us real. Reality can’t be defined, it can only be experienced. Be alert to those brief moments during the day when you experience your fundamental self behind a breath, a feeling, a sensation. Before you jump out of bed tomorrow, see if you can catch the fleeting hint of being, pure and simple, before the mind starts chattering. This still, silent, nameless state is very satisfying. It cannot be touched by thinking, talking, or doing. It’s the castle whose walls no army will ever scale, guarding the treasure house where the real riches of life are stored.”

Deepak Chopra, in “The Way of the Wizard”

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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 Thursday, January 29th, 2015 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on January 28, 2015 by jmaz479

“Author Terry Real once said, “We always marry our unfinished business,” and the same holds true for other partnerships. Just as partners can bring tremendous talent, connections, and value to the dance, they also bring along their baggage, like it or not. No partnership exists that does not have its struggles. It really has little to do with the job or project, but rather because the weaknesses of each partner are revealed (just as their strengths are) during the process of partnership. Partnership is about learning lessons. We are paired up by the architect of the universe with those who can teach the most in ways that may seem difficult on the surface, but absolutely perfect in the big scheme of things.

So many people have the opportunity to learn about themselves by being in partnerships, but they throw it away because the lessons are too hard. Take a deep look at the many partners in your life. Those people are there for a reason, some for a season, and often both. You don’t have to know why. It will be shown to you when the time is right – and you are ready.”

John St. Augustine, in “Living an Uncommon Life”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY

Posted on January 27, 2015 by jmaz479

“Many of us may equate humility with weakness, whereas just the opposite is true. Just look at the antonyms of humility: pride, arrogance, rudeness, vanity, pretentiousness, pomposity, and boastfulness. A person known for these characteristics is indeed weak. True humility means being open and receptive to new ideas. It is being unpretentious. It is the consciousness of consent, a willingness to be shown the higher path through a surrender of the lower personality. With humility our true worthiness begins to shine as the noonday sun. Without it a form of rigidity may set in, which becomes another experience to work through.”

John Randolph Price, in “Living a Life of Joy”

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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 27th, 2015 by Colleen Humphries in DELIBERATE CREATION FROM A-Z – LIVING YOUR LIFE BY DESIGN

Posted on January 26, 2015 by jmaz479

“So, how do you start to think abundantly when there are so many money issues out there; with so many people talking about how bad the economy is; with so many people still out of work and more people losing their jobs? Just how do you think abundantly? I want you to know that the Universe is ever abundant at all times. There is no big pie for all of us to just get our fair share and no more, or if we take a bigger piece, then someone else goes without. Instead, it’s like the Denny’s commercial with the “never-ending” pancakes. A man is eating a stack of pancakes and they magically fill back in where he has eaten them. It is an endless supply. That is how the Universe is with everything, a never-ending supply of whatever it is that we want. You just have to learn how to tap into it and receive it. It is there for the asking, the taking, and the receiving.

To bring more abundance into your life, start to notice abundance all around you. There is an abundant amount of stars in the sky; an abundant amount of grains of sand on the beach; an abundant amount of waves in the ocean; an abundant amount of blades of grass in lawns; an abundant amount of rain drops in a storm; an abundant amount of leaves on trees, and so on. There is always abundance in Mother Nature and everywhere else.”

Colleen Humphries, in “Deliberate Creation from A-Z – Living Your Life by Design”

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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 26th, 2015 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on January 25, 2015 by jmaz479

“If you now have negative circumstances in your life, cease to dwell on them mentally, and they will leave you. The best way to get rid of an unwelcome guest who lingers at your home is to empty the refrigerator. He’ll be forced to seek refuge elsewhere. When we stop feeding our bad habits and conditions with thought and feeling energy, they will drop off like an old scab. If we pull out the plug from an electromagnet, all of the scraps of junk metal that cling to it fall off instantly. Refuse to water a weed, and die it must. Negative circumstances cannot survive when we refuse to sustain them with emotional energy.”

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

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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 23rd, 2015 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

Posted on January 22, 2015 by jmaz479

“The moment we recognize the degree to which our difficulties are SELF-IMPOSED, we begin to heal them. We end self-sabotage only by taking responsibility for the choices and actions that created it. Only when we stop blaming our boss or government or parents or spouse or partner or children or circumstances or fate or God can we change our lives and say with conviction, “I chose where I am now, and I can choose something better.”

Whether or not adversity is a self-sabotage or a spiritual lesson, when a misfortune does occur, something rather surprising can happen. Many survivors of serious maladies – with all the pain and suffering – report experiencing a kind of inner peace they had not felt before. Pain has a way of clearing the subconscious scorecard, as if the adversity and suffering pays off sins real or imagined. It’s as if you finally get punished for all those things you said or didn’t say, did or didn’t do, and the scales are finally balanced. The psyche finds ingenious, sometimes tragic ways to find peace.”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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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 22nd, 2015 by Gary Spinell in BEYOND INTENT

Posted on January 21, 2015 by jmaz479

“Giving is the perfect way to enhance our self-worth. We can give in any way possible. We can give our time, our energy, our knowledge, and if possible our money. When we give to others we more readily see our value to the world. We use our special talents to help others, and in doing so recognize our own unique value to the world.

Appreciate what you have and be thankful. Focus on what you have and not what you lack. Focusing on our lack is a form of negative prosperity. Your focus on what you lack reinforces the Universe to continue with your lacking further abundance. Therefore, first recognize that you have something. At the end of each day make a list, even if there are only a couple of experiences that day for which to be thankful. Start by acknowledging that these two people or events brought you joy or abundance in some form. Follow this pattern every day, and eventually there will be three, four, five, or more items for which to be thankful. Or there will be one occurrence for which there is greater abundance and significance in your life. The key is to start with small steps.”

Gary Spinell, in “Beyond Intent”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

Posted on January 20, 2015 by jmaz479

“When there is no way out, there is still always a way THROUGH. So don’t turn away from the pain. Face it. Feel it fully. FEEL it – don’t THINK about it! Express it if necessary, but don’t create a script in your mind around it. Give all your attention to the feeling, not to the person, event, or situation that seems to have caused it. Don’t let the mind use the pain to create a victim identity for yourself out of it. Feeling sorry for yourself and telling others your story will keep you stuck in suffering.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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BONUS “BEST of” PONDER on THIS

“There’s a light in the depths
of your darkness.
There’s a calm at the eye
of every storm.
There’s a light in the depths
of your darkness.
Let it shine
Oh, let it shine.”

Dan Fobelberg, in “There’s A Place in the World for a Gambler”

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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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