BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 5th, 2024 by Polly Campbell in IMPERFECT SPIRITUALITY

“Faith is fluid and active, but it also demands monogamy. You don’t just stop living with faith the moment something doesn’t go your way. It isn’t a quick fix. Nor is it an antidote to pain, thought it helps to handle the discomfort when you believe the crap can morph into something meaningful. It is a bit easier to hold onto faith when we let go of expectation…When we load up our lives with the expectation that we should have all the answers, or that we are entitled to a life free of pain, or that everything should go our way, our faith becomes vulnerable. But when you are buoyed by faith, you’re able to step into the ick with the knowledge that all that is happening is propelling you to the place you need to go.”

Polly Campbell, in “Imperfect Spirituality”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 4th, 2024 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

“At its core your level of self-worth is your answer to a single internal question: “How deserving am I?” Or, to put it more directly as it pertains to your daily life: “How good can I stand it today?” If you observe your life very closely, you will discover that you don’t necessarily get what you deserve. Rather, you get no more and no less than what you BELIEVE you deserve. Only to the degree that you appreciate your innate human worthiness will your subconscious mind open up to life’s bounty.

Success involves talent, effort, and creativity, but first of all, it requires a willingness to receive. To paraphrase a speech I heard Ram Dass give many years ago, rain may pour down from the heavens, but if you only hold up a thimble, a thimbleful is all you receive.”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

“The REAL you is eternal and immortal. It can’t be frightened or sick or confused. It lives in a perfect dimension of exquisite beauty. So, if you have a fear of letting go, start getting a grip on your personality by talking to it and helping it through the experience. Talk to it like you would a child, saying “Hello little ego, I know you’re scared of letting go. I know you worry about me quitting this dumb job in case there isn’t another one. But I’m eternal. I’m abundant. I’m infinite. I know there’s something better up ahead because by Infinite Self can feel it. So don’t worry, little guy. We’ll be just fine.”

The sacred and holy journey – the journey away from ego toward the Infinite Self – is a journey through a fog. You’re only going to be able to see a few steps in front of you. If you can see down the path six months, a year, five years, twenty years, here’s my pension, here’s my retirement, here’s my destiny – YAWN, YAWN, you are deeply in the clutch of the demons of tick-tock, a prisoner of the world of the ego that sets up safe, boring rhythms to keep itself comfortable.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 by Jonathan Parker in THE SOUL SOLUTION

“When you finally realize that the universe reflects back to you what you’ve been holding in your consciousness at the deepest levels, your life will change. For one thing, if you really take in what this means, you’ll do some deep soul-searching to uncover how you’ve created your own reality. Once you see this, you can learn how to create other realities.

Being aware of the mirror universe also encourages you to become much more mindful throughout the day because you realize that you’re in the process of creation all the time. This is a crucial and profound understanding because it affects every single experience you have. This understanding reduces everything to a very basic process. If something in your life isn’t working the way you want, you don’t have to look outside yourself for the causes. This knowledge empowers you to create your life the way you want it to be. Can you see why this knowledge contains such tremendous power?”

Jonathan Parker, in “The Soul Solution”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 1st, 2024 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to the past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already IS? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now. Surrender to what IS. Say “yes” to life – and see how life suddenly starts working FOR you rather than against you.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 28th, 2024 by Michelle Bersell in F.E.E.L.: FEEL EVERY EMOTION AS LOVE

“Until now fear has kept you from knowing that you have nothing to fear but your longing for safety. Your ego-based longings keep you trapped in a state of lack, but you are never lacking. The opposite of lack and fear is abundance and love. Love requires trust. Moving from emotional stasis to emotional consciousness is a shift away from trying to control your feelings to trusting in their innate wisdom. This, my friend, is how you gain certainty, wherein you have no doubts about who you are and what you came here to do. Having this degree of certainty about yourself is the gift that fear offers you.”

Michelle Bersell, in “F.E.E.L.: Feel Every Emotion as Love”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, June 27th, 2024 by Louise Hay in YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE

“The Point of Power is always in the present moment. You are never stuck. This is where the changes take place, right here and right now in our own minds. It doesn’t matter how long we’ve had a negative pattern or an illness or a poor relationship or lack of finances or self-hatred. We can begin to make a shift today!

Your problem no longer needs to be the truth for you. It can now fade back to the nothingness from whence it came. You can do it. Remember, you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world! Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.”

Louise Hay, in “You Can Heal Your Life”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

“There are some things which have been done to all of us which seem unforgiveable. Aren’t there some hurts that are just too big to release? Sometimes it seems as if we even love to cradle these hurts in our arms and nurse them along through the years. But every hurt, every resentment – no matter what the cause – wreaks a corresponding amount of destruction in our bodies and/or souls. We really cannot afford the harm it does to us, the toll it takes.

You are welcome to stand outside the gate of forgiveness and feel justified in passionately nurturing your hatred, but then you must also be willing to pay the price.”

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

“Specific goals such as a net income, ideal weight, or a slick car can be fun and useful; just hold them lightly. If you drive yourself crazy over getting them, when they arrive you will not enjoy them. Found your journey on trust, and the right things will show up and stay. When anxiety is your keynote, attaining your goal will not remove your fear, but only intensify it. Struggle to get, struggle to keep. Instead of striving for the Sale of the Century, enjoy the Sail of the Century.

In the end, the only goal worth seeking is a satisfied soul. This has nothing to do with what is going on outside you and everything to do with what is going on inside you. The more you try to find it out there, the less you find it in here. The quest for self-knowledge is especially challenging in a world obsessed with toys and external distractions. Yet if you commit yourself to discovering the jewel that glows within your heart, it shall be yours forever.”

Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks…And What You Can Do About It”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 24th, 2024 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

“Yearning for, wishing for, longing for, even hoping for are not activities of focusing on what we want. They’re just negative thoughts that vibrate from a place of discouragement, a place of lack born from the pessimistic beliefs that we’ll probably never have what we want. And with those kinds of feelings flowing out, we won’t.

We get what we focus on; focus on the lack of something, and that’s what we’re guaranteed to get, because what the universe gives us, in every moment of every day corresponds with what we are vibrating. The bottom line is this: If we’re not feeling up when we think about something, we’re flowing some degree of negative emotion, a Red Flag warning telling us to pay attention to what we’re sending out.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 21st, 2024 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

“Someone once sent me a photograph that had been taken by a fisherman in Newfoundland. It was a picture of an iceberg, not only the part of it that protrudes above the water line, but also what’s underneath the water. We all know, of course, that what is visible on top of the water is approximately 10 percent of the iceberg. Still, seeing the image was mind-blowing. It’s shocking to recognize how much of our life our eyes don’t see.

And every situation is like that iceberg, teeming with forces that aren’t visible to the physical eye. Basing our sense of reality on what the physical senses perceive as real – what people did, what people said – we base our reality on a small fraction of its entirety. This means, of course, that we’re hardly in touch with reality at all.

What is visible to the physical eye is the world of form, while the greater reality of a situation is not its form but its content.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, June 20th, 2024 by Neale Donald Walsch in BRINGERS OF THE LIGHT

“Understand that “beingness” is a State in which one IS, not an action which one takes. You cannot DO “happy,” you can only BE “happy,” depending upon what YOU decide to be. You cannot DO “sad.” You cannot DO “afraid.” You cannot DO “wronged,” or “hurt,” or “annoyed.” You can only BE these things. And what causes you to BE them? Many people believe it is what is going on around them; that it’s what someone or something else is doing. Yet it is not. It is your DECISION about what someone else is doing which causes that. It is the choice YOU make.

The complexity surrounding this whole business is this: so many of the choices you are making are now so automatic, so deeply based in prior experience, that they seem to be non-controllable by you. And so it looks as if the actions of others, or experiences exterior to you, are causing the response within you. Yet the truth is, you are choosing to be in the State in which you find yourself.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Bringers of the Light”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 by James Redfield in THE CELESTINE VISION

“Few of us can look back at our lives and not see a pattern of synchronicity in the mysterious events that transpired to bring us our current career, our spouse, or the network of friends and alliances on which we rely. Much more difficult is the perception of such important life events in the present, as they happen. Coincidences can be dramatic. But they can also be very subtle and fleeting, and thus easily dismissed – as the old material worldview would have us do – as mere chance or happenstance.

Our personal challenge is to overcome the cultural conditioning that leads us to reduce life to the ordinary, commonplace, and non-mysterious. Most of us have learned to pursue life with our egos alone, waking up in the morning and thinking we must take complete control of our day. We create inflexible mental lists of projects we intend to accomplish, and pursue those ends with a kind of tunnel vision. Yet the mystery is always there, dancing around the fringe of our lives, giving us fleeting glimpses of possibility. We must decide to slow down and shift our focus, and begin to act on the opportunities coming our way.”

James Redfield, in “The Celestine Vision”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 by Danielle Rama Hoffman in THE COUNCIL OF LIGHT

“Whatever you perceive as not working in your life is the material substance and fertile land to transmute into what is working in your life. It is a perception that is not working…everything is on purpose: it is just that your electricity is off while something is getting fixed. Trust that if you have lemons, if the electricity is off, there is a higher evolution that is happening and this is part of the plan. You may not have the whole perspective, but it is going in the right direction. Times to come are going to be better than they have ever been, and you have an inherent wisdom that is guiding you. It is time to follow that wisdom with a fierceness, like it is the most important thing in your life. Listen to that inner call, take it seriously, and apply it living from the inside out.”

Danielle Rama Hoffman, in “The Council of Light”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 17th, 2024 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time, but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Why is it the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the ONLY thing. It’s all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was NOT now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of being.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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