BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on November 6, 2023 by jmaz479

“We participate in attachment to the past when we attempt to determine for others what their spiritual choices should be, based on what we were taught to believe. What education we seek, what vocation we choose, who our friends will be, how we will vote, what we wear, how we speak, and even how we choose to think are often determined by attachments to traditions – traditions that are so overwhelmingly powerful that to ignore them often means complete ostracism from family or neighbors.

“You are a _____,” say your parents. “This is what you were born into, and you have no choice about it.” Such a sentiment has no place for the enlightened soul. How is it possible for anyone to grow if you always do things the way you have always done things?”

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

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“We are each angels with only one wing; we fly only by embracing one another.”

Luciano de Crescenzo

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 6th, 2023 by Megan Don in MEDITATIONS WITH TERESA OF AVILA

Posted on November 5, 2023 by jmaz479

“When we come to prayer with a humble heart, the door is opened much wider than when we think we are still affecting everything. Throughout her writings Teresa never tired of reminding us of the great benefits of entering into genuine humility, that is, of allowing the ego to release control. When we do this, our prayers can become pure and spontaneous thoughts of the soul, or simply a state of being where we rest rather than constant petitions for what we want.

Teresa strongly disliked repetitive prayers and voiced her displeasure at this religious ritual: “Would we give a friend so little attention?” she asked. She actively encouraged praying with thought and feeling and demanded respectful interaction with the divine, not simply uttering words out of habit or hope.”

Megan Don, in “Meditations with Teresa of Avila”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 3rd, 2023 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on November 2, 2023 by jmaz479

“When people come to you and ask you for help, do as best as you can. Be kind, be generous, be gracious, be a big person and give of yourself – give of your energy. You don’t necessarily have to give of your money, but give of your energy. You can give them advice, love, expertise, but don’t pick them up. So when they say, “What should I do?” ask “What would you like to do?”

You get them to see that the only way up is when they’re enthusiastic about their life and their evolution on this earth plane. When their desire to achieve and perceive and create is greater than the ego’s self-indulgence, obstinacy, and destructive ways, then – and only then – will people change.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite 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 Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 by John Selby in EXPAND THIS MOMENT

Posted on November 1, 2023 by jmaz479

“Try this: bring to mind someone you know, anybody. Hold this person in your mind and heart a moment, then say to him or her: “I accept you just as you are.” Ah, what a relief! You feel a great flood of relaxation and joy when you realize you can accept others just as they are. They’re fine! Let them be. They’re not your responsibility. Let them off the judgment hook, and you set them free to flower and flourish. And at the same time, you set yourself free.

Every day, run through the list of people in your life, silently say to each of them, “I accept you and love you just as you are,” and experience the great release of compassion, energy, and spontaneous healing that you unleash. Say it. Do it.”

John Selby, in Expand this Moment

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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, November 1st, 2023 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

Posted on October 31, 2023 by jmaz479

“Taking responsibility is a huge task. Most of us are willing to take responsibility for the good we create in our lives, but we often resist taking responsibility for the bad. When we take responsibility, we can be empowered by everything. Even if we feel ashamed by something that happens, we can find peace in the knowledge that somehow it’s helping each of us to fulfill our dreams or direct our soul’s journey. We can look at ourselves and say, “the world is my canvas and I drew this event into my life to teach myself a valuable lesson.” We become accountable for everything that happens. We say to the universe, “I am the source of my own reality.’ This is the place of power from which you can alter your life.”

Debbie Ford, in “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers”

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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 Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY

Posted on October 30, 2023 by jmaz479

“Many of you who work feel that you are not free, that in some way or another between the hours of nine and five you have given up your freedom. Freedom is an attitude. To experience freedom in this situation, it may be necessary to look at the larger picture. Why are you in this job? If it is for the money, remember that you freely chose this job to make money and that you are free at any time to find another way to make money.

You can create a sense of freedom from moment to moment by realizing that you are free to respond, act and feel any way you choose. You are free to speak, and take action within the framework of your job. There is always a level of freedom in everything you do. Look at where you are free. Focus on that freedom, and it will increase in your life.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 30th, 2023 by Eliza Mada Dalian in IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

Posted on October 29, 2023 by jmaz479

“Trust your gut feeling and take risks by saying “no” to things that don’t feel right for you. The best way to practice surrendering to your inner power is to cultivate courage. Dare to be different and do what feels right even if others disagree with you. Watch how when you suppress your feelings of anger, resentment, insecurity, neediness, weakness, jealousy, or competitiveness you are diverting from surrendering to your own truth and power.

For example, if you usually agree with others out of fear of conflict, or because you don’t want to offend them, observe your thoughts and feelings that get triggered as a result. Ask yourself: Why am I compromising? Understand that no one is responsible for your choice to suppress your power – in spite of your fears and the possible consequences, courageously and honestly express what you truly feel. If you can live this way, you will not only give yourself a chance to live a more authentic life but will also become a source of inspiration to others.”

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 Friday, October 27th, 2023 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS

Posted on October 26, 2023 by jmaz479

“Negative feelings are in YOU, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That’s crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don’t have to change anything. Negative feelings are in YOU. No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That’s why you’re in the mess that you’re in right now. That is why you’re asleep. They never told you this. But it’s self-evident.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 26th, 2023 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE AMAZING LAWS OF COSMIC MIND POWER

Posted on October 25, 2023 by jmaz479

“The word “intuition” means taught from within. Intuition goes much farther than reason. You employ reason to carry out intuition. Intuition is the spontaneous answer that wells up from your subconscious mind in response to your conscious thinking. For business and professional people, the cultivation of the intuitive faculty is of paramount importance. Intuition offers instantaneously that which the intellect or reasoning mind of man could accomplish only after weeks or months of monumental trial and error.

When our reasoning faculties fail us in our perplexities, the intuitive faculty sings the silent song of triumph. The conscious mind of man is reasoning, analytical, and inquisitive; the subjective faculty of intuition is always spontaneous. It comes as a beacon to the conscious intellect.”

Dr. Joseph Murphy, in “The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power“

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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, October 25th, 2023 by David Viscott in EMOTIONALLY FREE

Posted on October 24, 2023 by jmaz479

“Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you’re in emotional debt, you’re pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered. Sometimes you yearn for more caring, for more time with someone who is no longer here, for a chance to speak your mind and release your emotional burden, or just to resolve your confusion by finally discovering what really happened to you.

You can speculate, you can lament, you can yearn, but as much as you may wish to return and round off your emotional experience, you can never go home again. Your real home is in this place, at this time. The present is for action, for doing, for becoming, and for growing.”

David Viscott, in “Emotionally Free”

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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 Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

Posted on October 23, 2023 by jmaz479

“The truth is that whatever it is we’re wanting to fix, all the desperate things we think about doing will have precious little effect on influencing our experience. Nor does it matter HOW we do what we do, or how much, or how often, since most of our doing is initiated out of negative, flap-around energy rather than inspired, breeze-along activity.

Give us a situation we don’t like, and, depending on our nature, we do one of two things: we throw up our hands in frustrated resignation, bowing down to accept our fate, or we leap on our big white horse, as the Lone Ranger used to do, and gallop blindfolded (rather than masked) down the trail bellowing, “Hi Ho Silver, Awayyyyyy” to frantically search for some heroic action to overcome the dastardly injustice befallen us. Either way, all we’re doing is blowing up bigger what we’d like to blow out of our reality.

Does this mean we stop doing? Of course not. We just substitute inspired doing for wasted doing by stopping our constant knee-jerk responses to everything. Then, with our focus held enthusiastically on what we prefer in life, the right moves to make come TO us.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 23rd, 2023 by Daniel Ryan in HEALING FROM HEAVEN

Posted on October 22, 2023 by jmaz479

“When we quiet the mind, we can choose to be open to what really is without instantaneously categorizing it and filling in the picture from a subconscious place. This is when the miracle happens, and we are present to experience it fully. The incessant, insane drive to be constantly distracted is ultimately based in the fear of cessation of our mere existence. Ironically, this is the very thing that keeps us dead. Hence, the saying by the Tibetan Buddhist: “Die before you die that you may truly live.” The enlightened one sees things as they are and accepts being in the moment unconditionally.”

Daniel Ryan, in “Healing from Heaven”

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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, October 20th, 2023 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK 3

Posted on October 19, 2023 by jmaz479

“Power without inner strength is an illusion. Inner strength without unity is a lie. A lie that has not served the race, but that has nevertheless deeply embedded itself into your race consciousness. For you think that inner strength comes from individuality and separateness, and that is simply not so. Separation from God and from each other is the cause of all your dysfunction and suffering. Still, separation continues to masquerade as strength, and your politics, your economics, and even your religions have perpetuated the lie.

This lie is the genesis of all wars and all the class struggles that lead to war; of all animosity between races and genders, and all the power struggles that lead to animosity; of all personal trials and tribulations, and all the internal struggles that lead to tribulations. Still, you cling to the lie tenaciously, no matter where you’ve seen it lead you – even as it has led you to your own destruction.

Now I tell you this: Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. There is no separation. Not from each other, not from God, and from anything that is. Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow.”

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

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“The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”

Charles Dubois

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 19th, 2023 by Lisette Larkins in DIFFICULT PEOPLE

Posted on October 18, 2023 by jmaz479

“In order to awaken spiritually, you must become friendly with the present moment. Surrender to what is. This is the counterpoint to the mind’s demand for negative emotional reactions to never-ending minutia. Changes can still be made, but such changes are made while in the surrendered state of equanimity. This act of surrendering prior to attempting to make changes or impart correction increases the energy field and vibration of the physical body. This heightened energy field can actually be felt by sensitive individuals standing nearby.

The higher and faster the body’s energy field, the more resistant it is to illness and “contagious” negative moods of others. In addition, higher energy fields are pleasurable to be around, although most people would not be able to discern the reason for their attraction. Awakened individuals are often construed as likeable. They are simpler than most people because they have no false identity to uphold and thus are not seeking an advantage, or staving off misfortune.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on October 17, 2023 by jmaz479

“Establishing your word as law is important. The mind is used to getting away with a lot of promises it never intends to keep. You tell yourself you’ll do this and that, and then you don’t. You promise to pay your friend on Saturday and then you forget, or you deliberately duck out of your obligation.

It’s important to establish your word as law unto yourself and others, because that in itself becomes an affirmation of your ever developing authority over the ego. If you say to yourself that you will do something, do it. Don’t make promises you won’t keep, and don’t make promises to others if you can’t or won’t follow through. Become immaculate. Be honorable. A life without honor is not worth having.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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