BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 20th, 2014 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

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“It would be nice if we could master life from our armchairs – achieving our goals through positive thinking or creative visualization alone. But the power to change depends not on what you hope or wish or think or feel or even believe; it depends on what you DO. Doing can be tough, and life can be difficult. It’s supposed to be, at least some of the time, because life develops in us only what it demands of us. Daily life is a form of spiritual weight lifting, and you are here to strengthen your spirit.”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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Best of PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 17th, 2014 by Stuart Wilde in THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE

Posted on January 17, 2014 by jmaz479

“You can buy fancy cars and spend loads of your hard-earned loot sustaining a theater. That gets you the odd ego-boost, but it doesn’t get you permanent happiness, serenity, and harmony. And it doesn’t take you to the Oneness in all things. In effect, it carries you away from your spirituality and from God toward the illusion. If things go wrong, your ego will take it all personally, and you’ll become sad and morose.

That’s why people take money so seriously – not because it keeps them housed, fed, and comfortable, but because of their need for attention and specialness. Once you detach yourself from the ego’s need for attention – once you’ve worked on yourself, and granted yourself worth regardless of how imperfect you think you are – then you don’t need admirers and observers. You become a self-observing individual, a free individual, out from under the manipulation of the ego and the world of glamor-addiction that dominates so many these days.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Little Money Bible”

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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, January 16th, 2014 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in GETTING INTO THE VORTEX

Posted on January 16, 2014 by jmaz479

“As you gradually train you own thoughts into those of positive expectation, as you align with thoughts of worthiness and Well-Being, as you align you true power by seeking good-feeling thoughts – you will no longer offer resistance to your own abundance. And when your resistance stops, your abundance will come. A flood of good-feeling ideas and possibilities will flow to you. Interesting and exciting conversations will surround you. People of influence and means will seek you out and find you. Opportunities and propositions will be plentiful.

And soon you will stand in knowing amusement that all of this was always there within your reach, but in your resistant state of attraction, you were not yet able to experience it…but then, it came – not because of your struggle but because of your ease.”

Esther and Jerry Hicks, in “Getting Into the Vortex”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

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“Each of us has a built-in mechanism which is designed to guide us toward perfect responses to all events and experiences in our lives. I call this the PERFECT RESPONSE MECHANISM (PRM). It is the mechanism that is brilliant enough to digest food and take nutrients to the cells in order to support the life of the organism. It is the mechanism that enables a fielder to race to where a baseball will be hit, before he can have any conscious mind knowledge of where the ball is going.

This mechanism can respond to an infinite number of stimuli instantaneously and simultaneously, if we allow the stimuli to reach the mechanism unimpeded. Every time the conscious mind intervenes in any way to evaluate, analyze, or think about the stimulus, the PRM cannot do its job perfectly. It is akin to having a calculator available and doing all our calculations without it.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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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, January 14th, 2014 by Richard Carlson in DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF

Posted on January 14, 2014 by jmaz479

“It’s easy to see God’s beauty in a beautiful sunrise, a snow-capped mountain, the smile of a
healthy child, or in ocean waves crashing on a sandy beach. But can we learn to find the holiness in seemingly ugly circumstances – difficult life lessons, a family tragedy, or a struggle for life?

When our life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday things, something magical begins to happen. A feeling of peace emerges. We begin to see nurturing aspects of daily living that were previously hidden to us. When we remember that everything has God’s fingerprints on it, that
alone makes it special. If we remember this spiritual fact while we are dealing with a difficult person or struggling to pay our bills, it broadens our perspective. It helps us to remember that God also created the person you are dealing with or that, despite your struggle to pay your bills you are truly blessed to have all that you do.

Somewhere, in the back of your mind, try to remember that everything has God’s fingerprints on it. The fact that we can’t see the beauty in something doesn’t suggest that it’s not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.”

Richard Carlson, PH.D., in “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 13th, 2014 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING

Posted on January 13, 2014 by jmaz479

“Here are the four steps to deliberate creation, the four steps that are guaranteed – that’s right, guaranteed – to bring into your life whatever is your passion and much, much more. They are guaranteed because they are universal law, the basic principles from which all creation has sprung. Now they are
yours if you want them.

Step 1: Identify what you DON’T want.
Step 2: From that, identify what you DO want.
Step 3: Get into the FEELING place of what you want.
Step 4: Expect, listen, and allow it to happen.

That’s it. That’s all there is to it. As you get into the swing of this remarkable new journey, things seem to magically change in every area of your life. Worries, concerns doubts, and fears go from a constant ever present little hum to an uncommon occurrence in a matter of weeks, and you can actually see it and feel it happening every day.”

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

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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, January 10th, 2014 by Paramahansa Yogananda in THE LAW OF SUCCESS

Posted on January 10, 2014 by jmaz479

“Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past, have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.

If you use all available outward means, as well as your natural abilities, to overcome every obstacle in your path, you will thus develop the powers that God gave you – unlimited powers that flow from the innermost forces of your being. You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts!”

Paramahansa Yogananda, in “The Law of Success”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 9th, 2014 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT

Posted on January 9, 2014 by jmaz479

“The truth is that all knowledge 100 percent of it, is nothing more than symbolism or words that we invent for the need to understand and express what we perceive. Every word in our mind and on this page is just a symbol, but every word has the power of our faith because we believe in its meaning without a doubt. Humans construct an entire belief system made up of symbols; we build an entire edifice of knowledge. Then we use everything we know, which is nothing but symbology to justify what we believe, to try to explain first to ourselves, then to everybody around us, the way we perceive ourselves, the way we perceive the entire universe.

If we are aware of this, then it’s easy to understand that all of the different mythologies, religions, and philosophies around the world, all of the different beliefs and ways of thinking, are nothing but agreements with ourselves and with other humans. They’re our creation, but are they true? Everything that exists is true: the earth is true, the stars are true, the entire universe has always been true. But the symbols that we use to construct what we know are only true because we say so.”

Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz, in “The Fifth Agreement”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS

Posted on January 8, 2014 by jmaz479

“The great mystics and masters in the East will say, “Who are YOU?” Many think the most important question in the world is: “Who is Jesus Christ?” Wrong! Many think it is: “Does God exist?” Wrong! Many think it is: “Is there a life after death?” Wrong!

Nobody seems to be grappling with the problem of: Is there a life BEFORE death? Yet my experience is that it’s precisely the ones who don’t what to do with THIS life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with ANOTHER life. One sign that you’re awakened is that you don’t give a damn about what’s going to happen in the next life. You’re not bothered about it; you don’t care. You are not interested, period.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Awareness”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOUR SACRED SELF

Posted on January 7, 2014 by jmaz479

“Simplify, simplify, simplify. I can’t repeat it enough. Examine carefully how much of your life energy is used in pursuit of what you don’t want or need. Practice one day at a time, the idea of saying no to more. A very emphatic, “No, I will not pursue that item.” In place of pursuing more-is-better, spend time playing with your son or granddaughter…Go for a long walk along the riverfront rather than spend time trying to get ahead.

As you release the energy you previously applied to pursuing more, you free yourself up inside to experience the joy of being rather than the drudgery of always doing. This is freedom, the ability to choose to be rather than to accumulate. You will discover, as you practice simplifying, that many items that you previously chased after, including money, will begin to show up in your life without pursuing them. This is one of the great ironies of life. Less is more!”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 6th, 2014 by M. Scott Peck, M.D. in THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED & BEYOND

Posted on January 6, 2014 by jmaz479

“Nothing will ever remove all mystery. But I believe at least part of the answer to these questions can be found in the Latin derivation of the very word “conscious,” con-scire, which literally means to “to know with.” What a strange derivation! To know with? To know with what? I suggest that the answer is to know with God. I have said that psychological disorders primarily have their root in consciousness rather than in our unconscious, that “nasty” material is contained in our unconscious only because our conscious mind refuses to deal with it.

If we can deal with this unpleasant stuff, then our unconscious mind offers an absolute garden of delights through we which we are connected to God. In other words, I believe that God reveals Herself to us through our unconscious if we are willing to be open to it, and become conscious of its wisdom.”

M. Scott Peck, M.D., in “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 3rd, 2014 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

Posted on January 3, 2014 by jmaz479

“When faced with situations that seem threatening or even tragic, our human tendency is to allow the flow of appearances to get us involved in a negative way.  But the solution to a problem is never to be found on the level of the problem. The only way out is up. Up…Up in consciousness, in thought and feeling, to the level where Spirit dwells, to the level of Divine Order.”

Richard and Mary Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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“Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. People, animals, trees, stars, are all hieroglyphics. We think they are really only people, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that some of us understand.”          

Nikos Kazantakis

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, December 31st, 2013 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

Posted on December 31, 2013 by jmaz479

“Humor is one of the most effective coping skills you can take advantage in your life. To be able to laugh at life and yourself is a gift that can make your journey much more satisfying and allow you to experience life in a relaxed and less grim manner. It is often said that it takes many more muscles in your face to frown than it does to smile. Lighten up and remember that you are an infinite being, therefore, you have eternity to do whatever it is you believe is such a crisis or emergency in your life. Begin to laugh at yourself and the challenges that the Universe places before you. Life really isn’t that serious, so stop making it appear that way and have a little fun.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 30th, 2013 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

Posted on December 30, 2013 by jmaz479

“There is a wonderful story about a wise teacher of truth who was walking through the woods with his students when they came upon the partially decomposed carcass of a dead deer. The students, in an attempt to protect their teacher from seeing such a repulsive sight, tried to steer him around it. But the teacher would not alter his direction. When he came upon the deer, he looked it over carefully and said, “My, what beautiful antlers.”

He chose to look past the obvious and express the beautiful. He didn’t dwell on the decomposed flesh but rather on the noble antlers, so his words were not of repulsion but of loveliness. We can do the same with our lives. Certainly we can find enough ugliness around us if we care to look for it, but there is also an abundance of beauty. Which do you want in your world?”

Richard and 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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 27th, 2013 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK 1

Posted on December 27, 2013 by jmaz479

“The word “renunciate” holds such wrongful meaning. In truth, you cannot renounce anything – because what you resist persists. The true renunciate does not renounce, but simply chooses differently. This is an act of moving toward something, not away from something.

You cannot move away from something, because it will chase you all over hell and back. Therefore resist not temptation – but simply turn from it. Turn toward Me and from anything unlike Me. Yet know this: there is no such thing as an incorrect path – for on this journey you cannot “not get” where you are going.

It is simply a matter of speed – merely a question of when you will get there – yet even that is an illusion, for there is no “when,” neither is there a “before” or “after.” There is only NOW; an eternal moment of always in which you are experiencing yourself.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “Conversations with God Book 1”

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