PONDER on THIS for Friday, September 20th, 2013 by Eugenia Oganova in MISSION ALPHA

“We are conditioned to give over our authority to doctors who are supposed to know what is wrong with our physical body. No one can know better what is going on inside of our consciousness than us, and so we are the top authority on all the physical conditions we have. Doctors can give us more information and offer ways of helping the body’s healing, but in the end we are the healers, not the doctors.

When something is wrong in the physical body, people tend to automatically run to the doctor or emergency room out of fear—fear that our body is betraying us, as if it has turned on us and now is working against us, making us feel sick. This only creates a larger rift between what we see as ‘us’ and the physical matter we are in. In reality it is all one being, we are energy and matter. Actually, if we only remember that, we can see any physical difficulty as a message from the body, not a punishment or betrayal.”

Eugenia Oganova, in “Mission Alpha”

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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, September 19th, 2013 by Stuart Wilde in THE TRICK TO MONEY IS HAVING SOME

“Now think of this: Why would God or the God Force put us in a dimension of such incredible wealth and abundance – a veritable Garden of Eden – and expect us to be poor and lacking in our needs? It makes no sense. It is natural that we would use the resources around us and gradually become abundant. God must have foreseen that as having a high probability. Given the dimension we live in, richness is natural.

To make that philosophically wrong, and to make poverty – which is so unnatural – right, is a conceptual flip-flop. It may serve certain vested interests, but under the Universal Law governing the naturalness of things, this cannot be truth. Imagine a God who considers the dole and food stamps holy and good and, alternately, considers the opening of a factory that grants creativity and wealth to say a hundred families, wrong. You can stick that in yer ear kid, it just ain’t true!

But we bought into all this stuff and the level to which we bought in is probably the level at which we find ourselves financially today. Understand that for the most part, all the things you were taught as true, that you hold to so dearly in your consciousness, are probably two-thirds or four-fifths ludicrous.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Trick to Money is Having Some”

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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, September 18th, 2013 by Eric Butterworth in DISCOVER THE POWER WITHIN YOU

“All contagion begins in the mind. There is a moment when you can say “NO” to every physical affliction that comes to you. Deal with the fear-thought quickly – affirm, “I am a spiritual being, and therefore I will NOT accept this thought of weakness.”

All lack and financial difficulty begin in the mind. When the earliest experience of anxiety or concern or fear or worry about money or work comes to mind, right then say “NO!” to the whole chain of negative thought. Then say “YES” to God, to good, to abundance, to your personal security. Affirm, “I agree with God only.”

The danger is when we let these fear and worry thoughts simmer in our minds. We need to be stern with ourselves. We must take action immediately. Stand up and speak the word of “peace” to the storms of human thought.”

Eric Butterworth, in “Discover the Power Within You”

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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, September 17th, 2013 by Michelle Bersell in F.E.E.L.: FEEL EVERY EMOTION AS LOVE

“The higher-consciousness message of your frustration is telling you that another path exists. This path typically goes against what you rational mind thinks or perceives, as the way to get the results you desire. This path also often involves risk. The energy of frustration is there to support your willingness and courage to break out of the box your ego put you in, and instead expand.

Think of frustration as your rocket fuel. In order for a rocket to burst through the atmosphere (the rocket’s current reality) and enter a new realm of space (the rocket’s potential), tremendous energy is needed. The vast majority of the rocket’s fuel is used in the first few minutes in order to break through the Earth’s atmosphere. Your frustration carries the energy you need to break through the old ways of doing and thinking and instead choose a new way that goes beyond your comfort zone and into your potential zone!”

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

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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, September 16th, 2013 by Marianne Williamson in ILLUMINATA

“Secularized organized religions have become, in many cases, as calcified as other institutions that form the structure of our modern world. That’s why they are accepted here, and also why they are rejected. Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that.

True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new. It is subtly revolutionary, for love by its nature is radical and ecstatic. It’s a force by which we burst out from what is old and calcified, into a higher mode of being. The internal experience of true religion is the process by which the human being breaks out of his/her bondage into full, free spirit. Within that freedom, there is no consciousness of slavery, nor respect for any structure that seeks to limit or control us.”

Marianne Williamson, in “Illuminata”

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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 Friday, September 13th, 2013 by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels in UNFLAPPABLE

“From the spiritual perspective, you’re a child of God, perfect as you are, and resting in Buddha Nature, Christ Consciousness, or Love and Oneness. In effect, the essence of you is ultimately divine and perfect as is. No change needed, and no dreams desired. Happiness for the divine dimension is enjoying the present, “being here now,” and going with the flow.

How can you be here now and run after your dreams? The answer is learning how to manage paradox. Then you’ll stop trying to get rid of that unpleasant inner tug-of-war by chasing the dimension that’s right (usually divine) and avoiding the dimension that’s wrong (usually human). You discover your inner tug-of-war has a vital role to play; then you’re free to be present to the moment while you’re also pursuing your dreams.”

Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, in “Unflappable”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, September 12th, 2013 by Marianne Williamson in EVERYDAY GRACE

“I once saw a pseudo-Buddhist graffito that read, “Don’t just do something – sit there!” It’s humorous, but it’s also a good spiritual directive. Where the ego would have us believe, “I’ve got to do something! I’ve got to do something!” the spirit would have us remember, “The best thing I could possibly do would be to sit down and quietly seek the peace of God.”

The Western mind, particular, is bent on the notion that we must do something all the time. However, when we remember that consciousness precedes matter, we recognize that serenity is more than a beautiful feeling. It’s an essential strength. An agitated mind creates an agitated world, which then creates more agitated minds, which then create a more agitated world. But moments of sacred silence break the vicious cycle. And that is why the cultivation of such moments is one of our wands. It harmonizes everything.”

Marianne Williamson, in “Everyday Grace”

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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 Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 by JB Lewis in LIVING IN CONSCIOUSNESS

“Understand that everything that has happened in your life was completely constructed by you. The things you’ve accumulated and the towers you’ve built are just inanimate objects. They are made of millions of pieces of wood, brick, steel or plastic. These things have no opinions. They have no ideas. They do not become angry or happy. They Do Not Have Minds. They are not out to get you. Your diamonds do not care if you toss them into the garbage, and your house will not be aware if you rip it to the ground.

These things seem obvious, but when life is falling down, visions become blurry. To shrink these monstrous problems back down to size, you must believe that your home, job, possessions and status mean absolutely nothing. You have to treat everything that is collapsing into your head as an “easy come, easy go” situation. Yes, it all has to mean that little to you. Do not let your ego tell you that you’ve worked so hard for all you have and that you are going to hold onto it with all of the strength you can muster.

“How can I get to this point?” you may ask. I shall tell you. If you wish to place your mind in this frame of thinking quickly, imagine that you are only a few minutes away from your death. That’s right. Pretend that I just told you that you will die in the next five minutes. With this new knowledge, picture the things that really mean the most to you. Is it truly your house, your car, the money you wish you had, or your prestige in the community?”

JB Lewis, in “Living in Consciousness”

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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, September 10th, 2013 by Tony Burroughs in THE LAW OF AGREEMENT

“I’ve always enjoyed window-shopping. You know what window-shopping is: it’s going out to the stores with no intention of buying anything. When I window-shop, I tell myself that today I’m leaving my wallet in my pocket. I’m just going to look in the windows, no matter how temptingly the shop owners have presented their wares.

I treat out current way of life the same way. I’m only window-shopping it. I’m not buying anything anymore. For instance, when the media tells me there is some new problem out there, and the solution is now being made available to everyone, I simply observe it. My experience has taught me time and again that the media is self-serving, and they have no interest whatsoever in my well-being. In fact, it’s just the opposite – the media creates problems in order to get us to buy their ideas and consumer goods.

In the old days, I would have gotten angry and begun to oppose their media hype, thus dissipating my precious energy. But now I just window-shop. I observe only – with no emotional attachment to the ideas they’re selling on TV and in the newspapers. I’m not buying any of it, so it’s no longer affecting me. This is one of the keys to our ultimate happiness.”

Tony Burroughs,  in “The Law of Agreement”

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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, September 9th, 2013 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY

“If you want to experience a world that is caring and supports your images of self-love, begin looking at what you are saying about the world to yourself. You can change your encounters with people and the world by altering what you expect. It has been said “the world may not be just, but it is exact” and this means that what you get is precisely what you expect and believe you will get.

If you are in a profession you “know” is hard to make money in, and you say, “not many people make money in my field,” you will create that as a fact for yourself. You are holding a certain view of reality, and that will be your experience, not only of your career, but of others you meet in that field also. All you need do is alter what you expect to happen and you will experience a different world.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with 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 Friday, September 6th, 2013 by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels in UNFLAPPABLE

“Life is nothing but change–literally happening right before your eyes—moment to moment. When you disregard, overlook, deny, or refute the reality of change, you miss the flow of life. The problem arises when you try to control change—and that’s exactly what your unconscious mind wants you to do. It says no to change because it’s risky—and it values safety more.

But we want both safety and risk. We control because we’re convinced we’re missing something, and we want it. But are we really missing anything? Have you ever tried to contemplate the here and now at a precise point in time? If not, give it a try this minute. In the actual moment, it’s hard to find anything that’s missing. You’ll find that you have to admit everything is fine—unless your mind’s eye is showing you stories about what’s unfolding—making it good or bad.”

Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, in “Unflappable”

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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, September 5th, 2013 by Eugenia Oganova in AWAKENING THE HARMONY WITHIN

“Fully embodying the belief that we create our reality frees our consciousness range from self-imposed limitations. This is the first step of the path of Self-Mastery – the mastery of the Mind. We become aware that we are responsible not only for our actions, but also for every thought we have. We then recognize that we must become disciplined in tracking these thoughts to their conceptual origins, and facing head on our fears and misconceptions.

At first this process is much harder than the victim way of life, when we simply blame others, the world, or life for our problems. It is difficult and takes incredible vigilance to be able to pay attention to feelings and thoughts – all of them! People who are more mentally inclined might find it easier to track the thoughts, while those more emotionally inclined would find tracking their feelings easier. But in the end the result is the same – it leads us to the origin of the belief (we can feel it, or know it, or remember the actual circumstance) so we can change it.”

Eugenia Oganova, in “Awakening the Harmony Within”

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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, September 4th, 2013 by Rich Work in GOD THIS IS A GOOD BOOK

“Tithing is a concept that has existed throughout the ages. The dictionary says that tithing is a tenth part. As you broaden your perspectives, it is time to give new meaning to this concept. Tithing is related to manifestation. It is said, “That which you give to God, so shall you receive and tenfold or more.” If you are a divine expression of the Creator, may I suggest that it is time to remember the concept of tithing in relation to the God within?

How much time and money have you spent in your life expanding your awareness of the God within? Consider the possibilities of tithing 10 percent of your time each day to acknowledge your divine nature and celebrate the essence of life. What about setting aside 10 percent of your income to expand your awareness and awaken your potential on all levels of your being physically, emotionally and spiritually, and to gift yourself with those things that celebrate the joy of life?”

Rich Work, in “God, This is a Good Book!”

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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, September 3rd, 2013 by Helena Ryan in UNLEASHING YOUR INNER STRENGTH

“Negative thoughts are a natural normal human thing to experience. If you experience many negative thoughts in a day then you are completely normal. Remember, psychologists and scientists believe up to 80% of our thoughts are negative. So relax, you are completely normal. The problem with negative thoughts is when we fuse or connect to them.

Negative thoughts come from the Stone Age, when cave men were hunters and gatherers. We needed negative thought patterns to stay alive. We needed to have the ability to respond to the noise in the bushes in a split second because it could be something that could kill and eat us back then. We needed to be able to process and filter information through the limbic system and have it react before the conscious brain did. Those few split seconds could have meant the difference between life and death.

We just haven’t evolved from that thinking yet. Brain evolution has been a bit slow in catching up. Our threats no longer come from invading tribes, potential starvation or sabre-tooth tigers. They come from struggling to pay bills on time, waiting in traffic and our lunch order being incorrect. In reality the threat and intensity levels are completely different, yet our brain responds in the same way.”

Helena Ryan, in “Unleashing Your Inner Strength”

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, September 2nd, 2013 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

“The idea of doing what you need to do even when you don’t feel motivated to do it may seem unrealistic or out of reach. Yet you have applied the power of your will many times – doing what was necessary in school, at work, or at home whether or not you felt energized, interested, or motivated. Notice the sacrifices you have made and the persistence you have shown learning a sport or musical instrument, going to work each day, raising children, building a long-term relationship.

Recall any accomplishments that required patience and diligence over time – doing what you needed to do whether or not you felt like it – and apply that same willpower to the challenge at hand. Whenever you are tempted to give up, remember that you never have to take more than the next step – and be guided by the English proverb reminding you, “Often the last key on the ring opens the door.”

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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