PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 30th, 2013 by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels in UNFLAPPABLE

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“For me, realizing life consists of both pleasure and pain, by design, and it is possible to have happiness despite this, was a revelation. As I put the pieces together, I realized my nagging feelings of dissatisfaction, that little dissenting voice that made me feel like I wasn’t in the right place at the right time, or doing the right thing, was all a set of instructions for how to find inner peace in the presence of my emotional turmoil. All this time, I’d been chasing happiness—and my discontent had been chasing me. This race had gone on for years, and I’d had no idea.

Instead of living life to banish negativity, turn around and look at what’s chasing after you. Whether your negativity, dark side, shadow self, or discontent arrives as irritation, anxiety, negativity, fear, dissatisfaction, disillusionment, disappointment, disconnection, or despair—or more intensely as anger, rage, blaming, aggression, and hatred—it carries a profound wisdom: the wisdom of your discontent.

However it appears, or whatever you name it, embracing your discontent is a direct route to a relaxing and clarifying piece of life’s wisdom. It’s been chasing after you since you first said, “Life isn’t fair!” Perhaps the polite thing to do is invite it for a cup of tea and listen up.”

Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, in “Unflappable”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 29th, 2013 by Gary Spinell in BEYOND INTENT

Posted on August 29, 2013 by jmaz479

“Another fundamental element of a positive attitude is to believe that there is good in all people. In addition, when we believe that there is good in all people, we have a sense of being connected to everyone and every living thing in the Universe. When we believe there is good in people and in the Universe, we have a sense of hope that life will improve over time for everyone. As we look for the good in other people, our minds focus on the goodness in our life. By continuing to focus on the positive, we fill ourselves with positive energy. This positive energy helps create more positive experiences in our life.

>When we focus on the negative in people and in our surroundings, we increasingly become filled with a negative perspective overall. As we focus on the negative, we attract more negative experiences to us.”

Gary Spinell, in “Beyond Intent”

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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, August 28th, 2013 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

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“Spirit can (and will) reveal to us the way if we sincerely ask, seek, and knock. Spirit can show us the path, but having been shown the path, it is WE who must take the steps and walk that path. Sometimes the best decision is no decision, merely to live in the now and do our very best to let Spirit express Itself through us, to be loving in every situation. It isn’t necessary to constantly search and strain for guidance, watching for “signs” and trying to interpret insignificant things as monumental fiats of the Almighty! This often results in confusion, instability, a scattering of mental powers, and a drain on the energy level.

So, what do we do? We live each moment, as best as we can, aware of the presence of God which is always with us. We also take at least one regular period each day to become still and listen to our inner guidance. But – and here’s the secret – once we feel nudged by that Spirit within to go in a certain direction, it is time to move into action, to set our hearts AND FEET in that direction and follow through!”

Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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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, August 27th, 2013 by Stuart Wilde in SIXTH SENSE

Posted on August 27, 2013 by jmaz479

“Daydreams are pleasing to the ego; they bolster it up, for they don’t usually require any discipline or action. The faculty of imagination, when used correctly, is different. Imagination allows you to see a future for yourself, but for it to make any sense, and to be real, there has to be a path from here – today’s circumstances, where you find yourself right now – to whatever circumstances or vision you have for the future. Daydreaming is the brain in neutral, just ruminating, doing nothing. Imagination, however, is visualizing with pictures, it’s not passive, is it? Through imagination you place yourself in the picture, and in the feeling, of a future circumstance or condition that you want.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Sixth Sense”

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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, August 26th, 2013 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

Posted on August 26, 2013 by jmaz479

“As you become more conscious it will be increasingly evident that it’s your responsibility to choose empowering interpretations. It is sometimes easier to be a victim, but a negative perspective provides you with a guarantee of more of the same. The more aware you are of the gifts of life the faster you will choose your own perspective on everything that happens to you. Tragic events happen to many of us. It’s a part of life. It takes courage to empower yourself through these events. But when you use these times to grow they become blessings.”

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

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“Oh, and it’s sweet to know, the wisdom that living brings,
Since I got a telegram, from the God of simple things.
She said, I don’t care what you do for a living.
I don’t care what kind of car you drive.
All I want to know right now is what do you believe in,
What it means to you to be alive.”

Don Henley, in the song, “Everything Is Different Now” from the CD “Inside Job”

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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, August 23rd, 2013 by Dan Millman in LIVING ON PURPOSE

Posted on August 23, 2013 by jmaz479

“Faith is founded upon the observation that the universe operates according to a higher intelligence, a master play, revealed as orderly laws. As Einstein said, “God does not play dice with the universe.” Neither does God play dice with you. If we are God’s creations, literally or figuratively, then we are perfect images of the Divine, here to realize our unity. So we need to ask not only “Do I believe or have faith in God,” but “Do I believe and have faith in myself?” If we are separate from God, cut off from the universe, then our faith is unfounded. But if we are, like a seashell or a star, an innate part of this mystery evolving into mystery, then our life is simply and always unfolding as it should.

So be gentle with yourself. Show yourself the same compassion, kindness, and respect you would show any of God’s amazing creations. Sometimes life is easy and sometimes difficult; sometimes filled with pleasure and other times with pain. But when we look with larger eyes, there is not a problem to be found. Only the Divine unfolding.”

Dan Millman, in “Living on Purpose”

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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, August 22nd, 2013 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on August 22, 2013 by jmaz479

“Whatever you enjoy receiving in your life, remind yourself, “I deserve this.” It is okay to feel deserving. And you will if you believe the self that is receiving something is worthy and important. Abundance is related to how you feel about yourself. If you feel that you are important enough to ask, and divine enough to receive, receiving will be your reward. If, on the other hand, you feel unworthy, it will be almost impossible for abundance to flow into your life.

Think of how a tree unfolds to all of its magnificent potential, always reaching for the sunshine and growing and flourishing. Would you ever suggest to a tree, “You should be ashamed of yourself for having that disgusting moss on your bark, and for letting your limbs grow crooked?” Of course not. A tree allows the life force to work through it. You have the power within your thoughts to be as natural as that tree.”

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

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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, August 21st, 2013 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION

Posted on August 21, 2013 by jmaz479

“To me, living consciously means accepting our human weaknesses and imperfections without judging ourselves harshly, and being willing to learn from our unconscious patterns of behavior once we become aware of them. It means looking at our experiences as gifts that can help us grow, recognizing everyone and everything we encounter as a potential teacher.

It means taking responsibility (not blame) for our thoughts, feelings, and actions, recognizing that they do have an effect on others. It means listening and reaching deeply inside ourselves to find our inner sense of truth, then doing our best to speak and live that truth moment to moment and day by day. And it means generously sharing the gift of our being, as well as our special talents and abilities, with others.”

Shakti Gawain, in “The Path of Transformation”

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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, August 20th, 2013 by Jonathan Parker in THE SOUL SOLUTION

Posted on August 20, 2013 by jmaz479

“Treat the Ego as an Injured Child: An effective technique in working with the ego is to treat it as a person you love who’s experiencing painful struggles. Suppose that person is your child. How would you be inclined to treat the child? Think of the ego as that injured little child who keeps hurting him- or herself over and over. If you regard the ego as a sentient being, you’ll find you’re able to have compassion for it the way you would for an injured child.

Feel compassion for the part of your ego that needs to defend itself. Approach the ego with the intention of wanting to help and heal it. It is much more skillful to view the ego this way that to treat it as an enemy to be overcome with force. A combative approach won’t succeed very easily. The ego is well practiced at defending itself against such attacks, and it will dig its heels in deeper to find a way to survive.”

Jonathan Parker, in “The Soul Solution”

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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, August 19th, 2013 by Neale Donald Walsch in BRINGERS OF THE LIGHT

Posted on August 18, 2013 by jmaz479

“If you’re like most people, you may not have given Life Purpose much thought in your earlier years. As a result, you may have spent a great deal of time doing things which at the end of your life will not matter; will mean nothing. Not to you, not to anyone. What you really have to do if you want to get on the fast track of evolution is to put each golden moment of Life to its highest and best use. You cannot know what that is unless and until you decide on a Purpose. That is, you cannot decide HOW to get where you are going until you decide WHERE you are going.

If your life is directionless, it is because you have not SET a direction. If your life is without accomplishment, it is because you do not know what you are seeking to accomplish. If your life has seemed pointless, it is because you have not sought to use it as a tool with which to MAKE a point.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Bringers of the Light”

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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, August 16th, 2013 by Neale Donald Walsch in FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

Posted on August 16, 2013 by jmaz479

“YOU determine what something means! YOU give it its meaning. Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. Remember that. Nothing means anything at all. It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy. Or choosing to be sad. Or choosing to be angry, or mollified, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing. YOU. Not something outside yourself. And you are choosing quite arbitrarily.

You are in fact, doing this right now. In every moment. Yet you may be doing it unconsciously. You may be as someone sleep-walking. If so, it is now time to WAKE UP.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, “Friendship with God”

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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, August 15th, 2013 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on August 15, 2013 by jmaz479

“Do not pay a lot of attention or give energy to the situation from which you are trying to remove yourself. The more you think and talk about what you don’t want, the more real it seems, the more evidence you will find to keep you there, and the more public opinion you will garner to uphold that condition. Instead, talk about where you would like to be, why you want to be there, why you deserve it, and how it would feel to be there. Your point of attention is your point of attraction. When you invest your thoughts and feelings in an upward direction, your point of attraction becomes your dream, not your nightmare.

You are not poor unless you think you are. And if you feel poor, you can find ways to feel rich. And if you feel rich, you are rich. And if you are rich, the universe will find ways to prove you correct.”

Alan Cohen, in “Relax Into Wealth”

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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, August 14th, 2013 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Posted on August 14, 2013 by jmaz479

“When you have unhappy emotions, don’t think another person caused them. If you are angry, stop blaming another person for making you angry. Instead, work directly with you feelings of anger. Learning about why you are feeling angry will do more to take you higher than trying to figure out how to get the other person to change.

Waiting for others to act in certain ways to be happy is making your happiness dependent upon something outside of yourself. It is turning your power over to other people and allowing them to determine how you feel. Calm emotions come from knowing that what you feel is YOUR choice.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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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, August 13th, 2013 by David Simon in THE TEN COMMITMENTS

Posted on August 13, 2013 by jmaz479

“Forgiveness is a prerequisite for inner peace. Holding on to grievances, regrets and resentments is a certain recipe for perpetual suffering. Each of us needs to consciously decide if we are willing to relinquish our need to be right in the service of peace, harmony and love. Whenever two people disagree, both are convinced they are right and the other is wrong, justifying their antagonism and legitimizing their hostile actions.

Transforming judgment into understanding allows peace to replace hostility. Understanding fosters forgiveness, which dissolves anger and fertilizes hope. This is the foundation of emotional freedom. Forgiveness brings divinity to humanity. More than a mere mood or sentiment, it radiates from a heart that has released pain, resentment, regret, disappointment and guilt. Forgiveness is a practice. It has the power to release constrictions in your heart that inhibit your ability to love.”

David Simon, in “The Ten Commitments”

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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, August 12th, 2013 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on August 11, 2013 by jmaz479

“Think of some of the painful events in your life. For how many of them are you grateful today, because thanks to them you changed and grew? Here is a simple truth of life that most people never discover. Happy events make life delightful but they do not lead to self-discovery and growth and freedom. That privilege is reserved to the things and persons and situations that cause us pain.

Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. In the light of this truth return to your life now and take a look at one or another of the events that you are not grateful for, and see if you can discover the potential for growth that they contain which you were unaware of and therefore failed to benefit from.

Now think of some recent event that caused you pain, that produced negative feelings in you. Whoever or whatever caused those feelings was your teacher, because they revealed so much to you about yourself that you probably did not know. And they offered you an invitation and a challenge to self-understanding, self-discovery, and therefore to growth and life and freedom.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, in “The Way to 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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