BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, March 8th, 2024 by Sondra Sneed in WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE DEAD

“Great change is taking place on the earth, and whether you believe in God or not, there is going to be a change in how you see the world. The world is not an easy place within which to become your greatest nature, because you and the rest of the world have forgotten why you exist at all. There is a problem with that forgetfulness. The problem is that you cannot find happiness in your life unless you remember the reason you came to earth. You came here for one reason – you are designed to find the mind of God and to give that mind to every activity you perform.

When you learn to open your human mind and capture the great creative force that dwells somewhere above your thinking brain, then you will uncover the riches you seek and the abundant life withheld from you. Please understand that the only one holding you back from the very thing you wish for is your misunderstanding about the nature of being.”

Sondra Sneed, in “What to do When You’re Dead”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, March 7th, 2024 by Eliza Mada Dalian in IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

“All struggles and unhappiness arise out of your rejection of what life brings. Instead of enjoying the life you already have, you seek what your beliefs and conditionings dictate. If you were prepared to accept what life gives you and able to watch your ego-mind from moment to moment, there would not even be a question of needing to surrender. In the absence of the ego-mind, you would already be in surrender.

What prevents us from surrendering is our need to always be right and in control. When we are afraid to let go of our beliefs and attachments to people and things we prevent ourselves from receiving what life abundantly showers upon us with all of its creation. It’s impossible to accept and surrender to life when you negate it through fear and insecurity. Your fear of the unknown and your worries of survival turn your life into a struggle that inevitably jeopardizes your own health and happiness.

You bring peace to yourself, others, and the world when you let go of your struggling ego-mind and gracefully accept what life offers you. By surrendering to what is you free your energy of the pain and suffering that your desires, beliefs, and conditionings create and discover many new and exciting things about yourself, others, and the universe.”

Eliza Mada Dalian, in “In Search of the Miraculous”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 by John Van Auken in BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN

“Karma is memory coming to consciousness again. What has occurred in the past is recalled and has an effect on the present. Now, the recollection may not surface to the conscious level; the personality may have no awareness of the memory, in fact. Yet it exists at the deeper, soul level.

One of the most distorted views of karma is the idea that nothing can be done about it. No matter how terrible our predicament, there is always something we can do, even if it’s just dealing with it as best we can with a patient smile, a good attitude and a loving heart. The time will come when we will be through with this stretch of the hard road, and it’s best to come out of it with no bitterness. Remember, no one has done this to you, it is the result of your own actions, thoughts or words. In patience you will overcome it and rise again to an even greater level than before. Again, keep in mind that in the worst situation often lies the greatest opportunity.”

John Van Auken, in “Born Again and Again”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK

“Imagine how you would speak to someone whom you love and respect immensely. If you have a pet dog or cat that you love and adore, how do you speak to your animal friend? Now consider how you speak to yourself. What do you say to yourself every day when you look in the mirror, when you are bathing or dressing or going about your day? If you speak to yourself in a critical, judgmental way, it’s because you have learned to do this from others. You AGREED to treat yourself this way, then you practiced this habit until you mastered it. Now that you are aware of the agreement, you can choose to break it by saying: I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, in “The Four Agreements Companion Book”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, March 4th, 2024 by JB Lewis in THE MIRACLE OF YOU: BACK TO CONSCIOUSNESS

“Try seeing yourself as a spiritual being of energy. Go to a mirror and look at your body then close your eyes. See your body in your mind then erase your skin, bones, blood, everything; and leave only a filed of energy where your body once was. You can picture this energy to look like anything you choose. I am only attempting to make your mind transcend the body and see it for what it is – a glove for the spirit. You can discard the body at any time; your real power is in spirit form.

You are a Spiritual Consciousness – You ARE All That Is. Do not resist it – open yourself to it. As you walk through your day imagine that you have no body – that you are only intelligent energy, perhaps in the shape of a body if that helps your visualization. Imagine yourself wanting something – proceed to acquire it using only your thoughts, knowing that your thoughts can create planets and stars and complex galaxies. That should make achieving anything on earth elementary.”

JB Lewis, in “The Miracle of You: Back to Consciousness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, March 1st, 2024 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

“In order to gain wisdom and freedom from your past, you must take responsibility for all the events that have happened in your life. Taking responsibility means being able to say to yourself, “I did that.” There’s a big difference between the world doing things to you and your doing things to yourself. When you take responsibility for the events in your life and for your interpretation of those events, you step out of the world of a child and into the world of an adult. By claiming responsibility for your action and your inaction, you give up the story line of “Why Me?” and turn it into “This happened to me because I needed to learn a lesson. This is part of my journey.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 29th, 2024 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“At the fundamental level then, it is our thoughts that are the true currency of creation. This is because as children of God, we are connected to the God-Force at all times, for it is this higher intelligence that beats our hearts, digests our food, etc. Moreover, our connection to God is not simply physiologically based, but also exists at the level of mind. Our minds truly are extensions of the mind of God, and as such have enormous creative power. According to Dr. Joseph Murphy:

“It is the world within, namely your thoughts, feelings and imagery that makes your world without. It is, therefore, the only creative power, and everything you find in your world of expression has been created by you in the inner world of your mind, consciously or unconsciously.”

The preceding passage is just one of perhaps hundreds that could have been referenced regarding the creative power of thoughts. Numerous authors and sages throughout all of recorded history have made comparable statements. And this leads to an important question, which is: what is the nature of our thoughts that gives them such force?

The simple answer is that a thought itself is at its fundamental level “an impulse of energy and information.” More importantly, according to modern quantum theory, those same impulses of energy and information that we experience as thoughts “are the raw material of the universe itself.” As such, thought is indeed the most powerful energy in the Universe.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 by Edwin Harkness Spina in MYSTIC SECRETS REVEALED

“There is no other mission on earth as critical as learning to tap into your inner self for guidance and expressing your inner light. As numerous spiritual traditions assert, “The highest and best source of wisdom comes from within.” Learning to ask for, listen and accept this guidance is essential to developing spiritually.

When you have tapped into your inner self, you then can use your mind to interpret the “voice” of your inner master, and take inspired action to create or express yourself – whether you are writing, painting, singing, working, playing, or simply thinking.

Now, be forewarned: there are those who may tell you that relying on your “mind” is dangerous – that doing so is egotistical. Some “schools” of thought actually argue humans think too much and, to balance this tendency, they should rely more on emotion and instinct. This theory misses the point entirely. The question is not whether you, or anyone else, thinks too much, but rather, WHAT VOICE DO YOU LISTEN TO – the voice of your ego or that of your higher self?”

Edwin Harkness Spina, in “Mystic Secrets Revealed”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 by Jack Kornfield in A PATH WITH HEART

“To love fully and live well requires us to recognize finally that we do not possess or own anything – our homes, our cars, our loved ones, not even our own body. Spiritual joy and wisdom do not come through possession but rather through our capacity to open, to love more fully, and to move and be free in life.

This is not a lesson to be put off. One great teacher explained it this way: “The trouble with you is that you think you have time.” We don’t know how much time we have. What would it be like to live with the knowledge that this may be our last year, our last week, our last day? In light of this question, we can choose a path with heart.”

Jack Kornfield, in “A Path With Heart”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, February 26th, 2024 by Jonathan Parker in THE SOUL SOLUTION

“When you become neutral, nonjudgmental, and nonreactive, you eliminate contributing energy that sustains the resistance or reaction. Then it runs down like a spent batter. It can put resistance for a while, but sooner or later the resistance, like the battery, will run out of energy and stop. So the resistance really can’t mount a sustained fight. It lacks the resources. The little energy it does have is infinitesimal compared to the soul’s. As the light engulfs it, the resistance melts and disappears like the wicked witch in the film version of The Wizard of Oz, who said “I’m melting” after she was splashed with water. The truth of who you are is the light, and the light won’t hurt anything that has a real existence. Everything else is an illusion.”

Jonathan Parker, in “The Soul Solution”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, February 23rd, 2024 by Dr. Irina Koles in TASTE OF THOUGHTS

“It’s true that changes take time and nothing happens overnight. It requires lots of energy, efforts and coordinated actions on a regular basis. Sometimes, a new idea sounds so odd that you can’t even consider taking it seriously. However, when you analyze the past and relearn, you may find a new way extremely effective and beneficial indeed. Therefore, having a  flexible and open mindset towards unlearning and relearning is important. When you keep following your main purpose, your passion will make the process easier and you’ll enjoy it. The desire to be healthy will feed your goal of achieving the ideal weight.

Your healthy and energetic body will support your renewed self-esteem, and you’ll discover that you have become more confident and attractive. When you’re passionate about your desire, you will find that it will bring you amazing results in every area of your life: professional development, finances, family and relationships, and your emotional and spiritual life. Consider your current beliefs about yourself, your health, your body and your eating habits. Unlearn first, and then replace old beliefs with those that will take you closer to your goal!”

Dr. Irina Koles, in “Taste of Thoughts”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 by Sanaya Roman in PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

“Every person and event offers you an opportunity to clean up your energy, evolve yourself, and move higher. The greatest reward is that once an issue is cleared up you will never have to deal with it again. You cannot be hurt by another person unless you are hurting yourself. You cannot be betrayed, undervalued or unloved unless you are doing it to yourself by not valuing and loving yourself.

When you heal yourself, everything around you that represented your inner struggle dissolves. You can heal yourself by speaking the truth from a deep level of compassion.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 by James Redfield in THE CELESTINE PROPHECY

“Whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we’re able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.”

James Redfield, in “The Celestine Prophecy”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 by Neale Donald Walsch in MOMENTS OF GRACE

“Many human beings will give every name they can think of to God’s miracles except “God’s miracle,” because they either don’t believe in God, or don’t believe in miracles – or don’t believe that miracles can happen to THEM. And if you don’t believe something, you will not see it for what it really is. Because believing is seeing. It is not the other way around.

It is for just this reason that you may not see yourself as Who You Really Are. You do not even know your Self to be a miracle. Yet that is what you are. A miracle in the making. For you are not nearly finished with yourself yet, and God is never finished with you.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Moments of Grace”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, February 19th, 2024 by Cherie Carter-Scott in IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES

“Surrender is the transcendence of ego and the release of control. When you surrender to your lessons that arise, you allow yourself to flow with the rhythm of life, rather than struggling against it. The peaks and valleys that mark your personal path become easier to traverse when you surrender to them.

The key to coming to peace with your role as a perpetual student lies in surrendering to what is, rather than trying to create what you envision should be. If resistance has been a theme throughout your life, then surrender will appear in your curriculum. If you are one of those people who always have to do things his way or who possess a strong, willful ego, then surrender will seem like defeat to you. But surrender only signifies defeat in war. In life it signifies transcendence.

This is not to say that you should remain passive and just let life happen to you. Rather, you need to learn to surrender to those circumstances over which you never really had any control anyway.”

Chérie Carter-Scott, in “If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules”

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