PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 by Judy Marie Trimbur in SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD SHE DID

Posted on May 6, 2014 by jmaz479

“Always follow your spirit, follow your hunches, follow all the signs the universe is giving you to re-examine any situation. You may feel crazy, afraid, and contend with “the good opinion of others,” but I strongly encourage you to follow your heart regardless. Pray to be receptive to the answers you are seeking. The answers already exist, it is our human self that needs to learn how to hear them. What is “crazy” is following the opinions, beliefs, and direction of everyone else rather than listening to and following your own higher/genius self. Harmonizing and syncing with the divine intelligence of God’s will/Universal Knowing, opens the door to the endless possibility of healing.”

Judy Marie Trimbur, in “She Thought She Could She Did”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 5th, 2014 by Bonnie Glass-Coffin and don Oscar Miro-Quesada in LESSONS IN COURAGE

Posted on May 4, 2014 by jmaz479

“The consciousness that we cultivate as we deeply connect to the beauty all around us is open to everything that comes through. We do not silence or reject any emotion, fear, or lower impulse. We simply observe it. This is consciousness that requires a letting go of all attachments to everything that we thought we were – the abandoned child, the fearful protégé, the insecure professional, the angry victim.

All insecurities, self-loathing, judgment, attachment, aversion, and need recede from view when we align ourselves with the beauty of the present moment and simply allow. This illumined-mind consciousness is that which is willing to dive deep into the liquid universe and just let go, flowing and moving gracefully with the challenging cycles and rhythms and seasons and pulses of creation.”

Bonnie Glass-Coffin and don Oscar Miro-Quesada, in “Lessons in Courage”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 1st, 2014 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on May 1, 2014 by jmaz479

“While days are easy to measure, moments are not. But rather than waiting for moments to come floating along, we need to get about the business of creating them. I have some suggestions. Take a day off from work, surprise your kids, and goof off the entire day. Drop by your wife’s place of employment unannounced and tell her how much she means to you. Pick up the phone and call that person you have been meaning to connect with but were too busy to get it done. Sit and watch the sunset or the moonrise. Walk on the lawn early in the morning when the dew still clings to the grass. Turn off all your electronic devices for three hours and take a nap. None of these things will add any years to your life, but they will, without question, add life to your years. And that is the only thing you can control – in this moment.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

Posted on April 30, 2014 by jmaz479

“Along with heaven and hell, we usually hear the term “judgment day.” That’s the day we supposedly will all be taken before God, who will render the final judgment as too whether we go “up” or “down.’ Is there a judgment day? You bet there is. But it’s not where, what, or when most people think it is.

Judgment day takes place each time you set a cause into motion. If you are responsible for some wrong action of any kind, you are “punished” BY the deed itself. Your own thoughts and deeds are continually setting up their results, their judgments, and are “taking action” for or against you. No one escapes the day of judgment, because it is taking place every moment of our lives.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

Posted on April 29, 2014 by jmaz479

“I am quite certain that there are numerous people in your life that elicit negative emotions from you. Do not allow those individuals to have power over you; learn from them and treat them kindly. These are the greatest teachers you will ever encounter in life. Allow them to teach you patience and reveal to you how you do not want to act. Silently wish them the best in their life and advance with yours. Keep in mind that these people probably have much more pain and suffering in their lives than you can possibly imagine.

Richard A. Singer, in “Your Daily Walk With the Great Minds”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 28th, 2014 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

Posted on April 27, 2014 by jmaz479

“The key to having whatever your most divine heart desires – bar nothing – is finding a way to feel good about your Want: not wish for it, yearn for it, long for it, sigh for it, or feel discouraged about it, but just feel good about it. So here we are in this quandary. We’re wanting, which usually makes us feel bad, because not only do we not have what we want, we haven’t the foggiest idea how to get it. The solution? CHANGE THE FEELING!
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When you want something, hold your thoughts on that Want for a few moments until some sort of feeling comes up: any kind, good or bad. Red Flag or Green Flag, doesn’t matter. Then tune into that feeling. If you feel low instead of jazzed, disheartened instead of turned on, you’re thinking about NOT HAVING instead of HAVING. You’re thinking about the LACK of what you want. On the other hand, if you’re feeling even a twinge of excitement, or a nice warm buzz, you’re on target.

The whole process of creating on purpose is about getting our thoughts OFF what we don’t want, ON what we do want, and KEEPING THEM THERE.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 25th, 2014 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on April 25, 2014 by jmaz479

“There’s a little rule that a teacher friend of mine, Denise Linn, lives by. Her rule is that anything you haven’t used or handled – that is touched – in the last six months, and that you’re not going to use in the next few months, get rid of it. Give it away. What that says is that you will only surround yourself with things that are alive with energy – things you touch, love and maintain – things that you are using. Everything else: you’re going to liberate yourself from the weight of it.

In this way, you remain simple. Look at the birds. They don’t have garages full of stuff. They’re simple and they know. They wake up in the morning and they’re not thinking, “How am I going to make it today?” They just fly around and peck here, peck there, and the God Force provides for them. Understand that there’s an enormous abundance, so keep your life uncluttered, uncomplicated.”

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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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 24th, 2014 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on April 24, 2014 by jmaz479

“All great achievements begin with a vision grander than the appearance at hand. Never use what has been, or what is before you, as an indication of what can be. What is within you is more real, alive, and valuable than anything the outside world shows you.

Most people accept the limits prescribed to them by their forebears or authority figures without questioning or testing them. The world seems real, solid, and formidable because may agree that it is so. Yet it is not. Great world change agents reach beyond the accepted to push the envelope of the possible. For example: the wingspan of a Boeing 747 is wider than the length of the Wright brothers’ entire first flight at Kitty Hawk. If the Wright brothers believed that “if man were mean to fly, he would have wings,” we might still be using only surface transportation. If Boeing believed that air flight was limited to the breadth of its inventors, we would still be flying biplanes. Neither are you bound by what anyone has done before you.

Conditions may influence consciousness, but consciousness creates conditions. Your ideas are strong electromagnets that draw equivalent circumstances. Do not wait until conditions are right for you to do what you would love. Do what you can picture in your mind, and life will imitate your inner art.”

Alan Cohen, in “Relax into Wealth”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in REAL MAGIC

Posted on April 23, 2014 by jmaz479

“Yes you can create miraculous changes in your life. Yes you have the power within you to manifest what may have seemed impossible only a short time ago. Yes you can know the meaning of real magic in your life. The setting for making this your reality is right there inside you. Get yourself aligned with your purpose.

Discover the joy and peace of giving, not getting; of contributing, not acquiring; of doing, not competing or winning. Why? Because you can’t really GET anything. The message of your life is in what you give. You show up with nothing. You leave with nothing. All you truly can do with this life in form is to give it away. Purpose is always about giving. When you experience giving, serving, loving and promoting harmony you will feel the difference within yourself. Andre Gide summed it up so beautifully in his journal – Complete possession is provided only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.”<

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014 by Tony Burroughs in THE LAW OF AGREEMENT

Posted on April 21, 2014 by jmaz479

“Our Continuous Comfort Zone (CCZ) will keep us from fulfilling the calling we set for ourselves long, long ago. You see, all of us have projects that we arranged and agreed to do here on Earth, and if we stay in our CCZ too long, we won’t be as apt to do the things we came here to do. Accordingly, the Highest Good will see to it that we are removed from places, relationships, and situations so that we can have something better.

The challenge with this is that we tend to think we want to stay where we are; we’re not always able to see around the corner to a time when things will be better because we left the place we were in. So the Universe will begin to make the places or relationships we’re in go stale or become uncomfortable…These are not the times to allow ourselves to get too attaches to our CCZs. The world is changing so fast that we must be ready to flow and to go where we are most needed. We each have amazing, life-changing experiences awaiting us; however, we cannot expect to avail ourselves of these gifts as long as we stay stuck in our CCZs.”

Tony Burroughs, in “The Law of Agreement”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 21st, 2014 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

Posted on April 21, 2014 by jmaz479

“Some of us center our lives around other people’s feelings; we try to make them happy. But since you can’t control your feelings, how can you possibly fix the feelings of others? The plain truth is that feeling responsible for someone else’s happiness (or unhappiness) is simply not realistic.

No longer feeling responsible for the feelings of others, you can come to fully accept them rather than react TO them. If you are to accept your own emotions as natural, you need to accept everyone else’s emotions as well. Their emotions, whether calm or stormy, are their affair.”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 18th, 2014 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on April 17, 2014 by jmaz479

“What is clear thinking and how does one arrive at it? The first thing you must know is that it does not call for any great learning. It is so simple as to be within the reach of a ten-year-old child. What is needed is not learning but unlearning, not talent but courage. You will understand this if you think of a little child in the arms of an old, disfigured housemaid. The child is too young to have picked up the prejudices of its elders. So when it snuggles in that woman’s arms, it is responding not to labels in its head; labels like white woman, black woman, ugly, pretty, old, young, mother, servant maid, it is responding not to labels such as these, but to reality.

That woman meets the child’s need for love and that is the reality the child responds to, not the woman’s name and figure and religion and race and sect. Those are totally and absolutely irrelevant. The child has as yet no beliefs and no prejudices. This is the environment within which clear thinking can occur. And to achieve it one must drop everything one has learned and achieve the mind of the child that is innocent of past experiences and programming which so cloud our way of looking at reality.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, in “The Way to Love”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 17th, 2014 by J.M. DeBord in DREAMS 1-2-3

Posted on April 17, 2014 by jmaz479

“If you do forget a dream, don’t fret: Dreams repeat themselves, displaying the same scenario a thousand different ways if necessary. In my experience, the dreaming mind is eager to get to work whenever I am, but the motor might take a few cranks to get started. If at first you don’t succeed, keep trying.

If you draw a blank when you first wake up, pay close attention to your feelings, which can give clues to what you dreamed. Allow your imagination to fill in gaps; your intuition and feelings know what happened in a dream even if it can’t be recalled. Also, flashes of dream memory can be remembered at any time during the day. A simple act like sitting down to type at your computer or getting your usual cup of coffee in the break room can trigger a new detail of your dream to surface.”

J.M. DeBord, in “Dreams 1-2-3”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 by Jack Kornfield in A PATH WITH HEART

Posted on April 16, 2014 by jmaz479

“Spiritual maturity allows us, like bamboo, to move in the wind, to respond to the world with our understanding and our hearts, to respect the changing circumstances around us. The spiritually mature person has learned the great arts of staying present and letting go. Their flexibility understands that there in not just one way of practice or one fine spiritual tradition, but there are many ways. It understands that spiritual life is not about adopting any one particular philosophy or set of beliefs or teachings, that it is not a cause for taking a stand in opposition to someone else or something else. It is an easiness of heart that understands that all of the spiritual vehicles are rafts to cross the stream to freedom.”

Jack Kornfield, in “A Path With Heart”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 15th, 2014 by Mark Nepo in THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Posted on April 15, 2014 by jmaz479

“It seems that any moment of interest or pain or adversity can surprise us into the larger totality of life, breaking our current limits and allowing us the chance to redefine ourselves in regard to the larger sense that is upon us. That we are opened – so suddenly, so often – is the way the soul unfolds on Earth.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life. Rather, we can only prepare for how we might respond to the gift of surprise that often moves in on us faster than our reflex to resist.

Life is surprising, thank God, and God, the chance to know Oneness, lives in surprise. For God is seldom in our plans, but always in the unexpected.”

Mark Nepo, in “The Book of Awakening”

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