BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 8th, 2013 by Deepak Chopra in AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND

Posted on April 7, 2013 by jmaz479

“Life’s uncertainty makes constant demands on everyone’s coping mechanisms. There are basically two ways to cope with uncertainty – acceptance and resistance. Acceptance means that you allow events to unfold around you and react to them spontaneously, without suppression. Resistance means that you try to change events from what they really are and react to them with familiar, safe responses. Acceptance is healthy because it permits you to clear any stress as soon as it occurs; resistance is unhealthy because it builds up residues of frustration, false expectations, and unfulfilled desires.”

Deepak Chopra, in “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind”

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Best of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 5th, 2013 by Carlos Castaneda

Posted on April 5, 2013 by jmaz479

“Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. The question is one that only a very old man/woman asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”

Carlos Castaneda

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 4th, 2013 by Theresa Crabtree in MAYAN MESSAGES: DAILY GUIDE TO SELF-EMPOWERMENT

Posted on April 4, 2013 by jmaz479

“Do you remember studying the “number line” when you were in school? The line stretched out infinitely to the left (negative numbers) and to the right (positive numbers). A little dot represented a number or place on the line. That is how our world of polarity works. You can choose an infinite number of negative possibilities or an infinite number of positive possibilities. The little dot on the number line is where you are NOW.

At any point, you can choose with clear intentions and passion what you wish to experience. Finding balance and integrating the “negative and positive” aspect of every situation is like riding a bicycle. It requires concentration and practice until you master the skill. Once you learn to ride the bicycle, you will get faster and be able to zip past those dots at record speed. The trick is to know when you have arrived. If you realize you have passed your mark, turn your bike around and retrace your steps until you find yourself balanced, in a state of peace.”

Reverend Theresa Crabtree, in “Mayan Messages: Daily Guide to Self-Empowerment”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. in THE WAYS OF THE MYSTIC: SEVEN PATHS TO GOD

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jmaz479

“The question is, what do you treasure, and what is most important, because that is where you will put your energy, your heart. If you are simply interested in creating wealth and manifesting Jaguars, you may be able to do it, but to what end? These are temporary pleasures, and according to some polls, wealth may not be such a pleasure. The very wealthy have a much higher rate of suicide than the rest of us.”

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., in “The Ways of the Mystic: Seven Paths to God”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 by Gerry Hopman in LIGHTEN UP!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by jmaz479

“The physical benefits of laughter are phenomenal. Laughter stimulates the brain, the nervous system, the respiratory system, the hormonal system, and the body’s muscles. Health and laughter combine, because when a person laughs, all of the body systems are involved. Muscles contract, respiration increases in volume and rate, and blood pressure is elevated. Body temperature increases and the central nervous system is activated. The real benefit, however, is that the activity levels of these systems when the body is at rest, is experienced in breathing, pumping of the blood, and muscle contractions. After a good laugh, these levels fall below normal, giving us the feelings of deep relaxation and overall good feeling.

Laughter makes it easier to deal with life and its many challenges. People who laugh don’t worry as much as people who don’t laugh. It also helps us deal with conflict better, because it provides us with a better perspective. Laughter facilitates problem-solving. When we trust, we drop our defenses. Laughter makes us open up, and allows us to be vulnerable. As a result we become more willing to make changes. Laughter lifts us up and makes life worth living. It makes us feel safer and feel less awkward.”

Gerry Hopman, in “Lighten Up!”

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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, April 1st, 2013 by Joseph Campbell in REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF LIVING BY DIANE K. OSBON

Posted on April 1, 2013 by jmaz479

“If what you are following is your true adventure, if it is something appropriate to you deep spiritual need or readiness, then magical guides will appear to help you. If you say, “Everyone’s going on this trip this year, and I’m going too,” then no guides will appear. Your adventure has to be coming right out of your own interior. If you are ready for it, then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It’s the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.”

Joseph Campbell, in “Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion” by Diane K. Osbon

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, March 29th, 2013 by Jack Kornfield in A PATH WITH HEART

Posted on March 29, 2013 by jmaz479

“In the paradox of life sometimes our compassion requires us to say yes and sometimes it requires us to say no. These may seem like opposites but they are not. There is no formula for the practice of compassion. Like all of the great spiritual arts, it requires that we listen and attend, understand our motivation, and then ask ourselves what action can really be helpful. Compassion exhibits the flexibility of a bamboo bending with the changing circumstances, setting limits when necessary and being flexible at the same time.

Compassion allows life to pass through our hearts with its great paradoxes of life, love, joy, and pain. When compassion opens in us, we give what we can to stop the war, to heal the environment, to care for the poor, to care for people with AIDS, to save the rain forests. Yet true compassion also loves ourselves, respects our own needs, honors our limits, and our true capacity.”

Jack Kornfield, in “A Path With Heart”

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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, March 28th, 2013 by Dianne Eppler Adams in CONSCIOUS FOOTSTEPS

Posted on March 28, 2013 by jmaz479

“Many of us are haunted by persistent, self-critical thoughts like, “What makes you think you can do that? You’ll never do it right? What if you fail?” It doesn’t matter whether you have already proved yourself as capable in a particular arena. The inertia generated by self-critical thoughts can leave you paralyzed and unwilling to step forward to act, when you might just as easily be successful and disprove those thoughts.

Self-criticism is often the cause of depression, apathy, immobilization, and a general lack of direction. Have you stopped to think who is doing the criticizing? Who determined that you are not good enough? Who said you never do it right? Who said you are sure to fail? As children, we are influenced variety of caregivers who probably had a sincere desire to nurture and guide us toward adulthood (as they perceived it, of course). They left us with subtle (or not so subtle) messages about our abilities that stuck with us, buried securely in our subconscious.

We internalized them as “truths” and our actions have been controlled ever since. However, they were merely personal opinions and our caregivers passed on to us…Next time you become aware of an inner self-critical voice, consider who is speaking and decide if you agree that it is really true.”

Dianne Eppler Adams, in “Conscious Footsteps”

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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, March 27th, 2013 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in WALKING ON WATER

Posted on March 27, 2013 by jmaz479

“One day God got tired of people. They were always pestering him, asking him for things. So he said, “I’m going away to hide for a while.” So he gathered all of his advisers and said, “Where should I hide? Where’s the best place for me to hide?”

Some said, “Hide on the highest mountain peak on earth.” Others said, “No, hide at the bottom of the sea; they’d never find you there.” Others, “Hide on the other side of the moon; that’s the best place. How are they going to find you there?”

Then God turned to his most intelligent angel and asked him, “Where do you advise me to hide?” The intelligent angel smiled and said, “Go hide yourself in the human heart. That’s the only place where they never go!”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Walking on Water”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 by Carl Bozeman in ON BEING GOD, BEYOND YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE

Posted on March 26, 2013 by jmaz479

“Outside of what we think we know about ourselves is only the tip of a huge iceberg, and we cannot neither see nor comprehend it. In a way, we all seem to intuit within us something far greater than what or who we believe we are, but when we explore such possibilities the noise of our minds, the culmination of our histories, experiences, and education, casts a dark shadow over us. In other words, we are literally talked out of what or who we truly are by the chatter of our own minds. Our real identity is buried in the noise of our reason and debate. We accept this noise and debate, identify ourselves with it, and lose our true selves to it. We are not what we think nor are we the past from whence we came or the future where we direct ourselves.

All that exists, hence all that we are, exists right now and only now! We do not exist in the future nor are we victims of any past experience. There is only now and it is neither good nor bad. Now simply is and it is the only place of power any of us have. Most of us give away the power of our present time to our past or to our hopes for the future. Such power, if harnessed right now without the weight of historical suffering or dreams of a better day in the future, would open our eyes to not only the huge iceberg beneath the tip we see, but the entire ocean in which it all resides. Our greatness exceeds any metaphor. We are boundless!”

Carl Bozeman, in “On Being God, Beyond Your Life’s 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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, March 25th, 2013 by Stuart Wilde in SIXTH SENSE

Posted on March 25, 2013 by jmaz479

“It’s sad that many suffer from not having a purpose in life. But you can see how the problem comes about. Experiencing the activity of life, the ego-personality burns itself out; there is nothing for it to do. Some settle for that and they carry on, accumulating bits and bobs. Nothing much makes them happy, and then they go on to another evolution. Others fling themselves on the spiritual path, which works for a while, but even that peters out, as there are only so many books and seminars and temples you can trot around before you find yourself beyond it all.

In the end, you have to become your own teacher, and you have to find something that has real meaning. It’s part of understanding and expressing the God Force flowing through you. Discovering meaning is not a divine right; we each have to work to discover it. You win “meaning in life” as a special prize by creating energy. A lack of meaning is often a sign of a burnt-out mind that needs a new inspiration.”

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 Friday, March 22nd by Rich Work in GOD THIS IS A GOOD BOOK

Posted on March 22, 2013 by jmaz479

“There is a saying upon your Earth, “I will believe it when I see it.” Yet others have said, “I will see it when I believe it.” Each statement has truth. One is a statement of limitation, the other the doorway to manifestation. Which one do you choose? If you choose to walk around as a saint, what would you do? How would you act? Would you pretend to be something others expect you to be rather than that which you are?

To be a master is to walk your truth. It is easy to talk your truth, but quite another to live it. To be a master is to live your truth. To be a master is to honor all masters for the journey they have chosen. To be a master is not to violate the free-will choice of another. To be a master is to allow no other to violate your free-will choice. To be a master is to be in non-judgment of another, even though they might be judging you in the moment. To be a master is to see the perfection within all that you can see and perceive.”

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 Thursday, March 21st, 2013 by Kathleen Martin in UNDERSTANDING UNIVERSAL LAWS 101

Posted on March 21, 2013 by jmaz479

“Whatever you are experiencing, learn to accept where you are. Remember that acceptance is the polar opposite of resistance. Resistance happens when we put our focus and attention on what we don’t want and prevents us from having all that we desire. When we accept things as they are, there is no negative emotion and therefore no resistance. Now, you are in the place of allowing your desires with ease. By accepting whatever the current experience is and at the same time expressing appreciation for the contrast that is causing the clarity of what you do want, you will soon find those things that you don’t want will fall away.

A powerful practice is to write out a list of what you don’t want just for the experience of becoming clear about what you do want; not to pay attention to what doesn’t feel good. Next, write out the list of what you do want. Notice how you become clear about what you do want by paying attention to what you don’t. This exercise will help you to put your attention on the vantage point of what you want so that you can be in the place of attracting your desires.

Kathleen Martin, in “Understanding Universal Laws 101 – The Missing Education”

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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, March 20th, 2013 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Posted on March 20, 2013 by jmaz479

“Do you believe that God or an Infinite Intelligence is responsible for human life and everything else in the Universe? If the answer is yes, do you see it as an unconditionally loving and supportive energy? It is interesting that the way you view the energy, is exactly the way that you will experience life. If you can bring yourself to honestly and completely believe that it is totally loving, and supportive of everyone, under all circumstances, then you will experience a life of total joy.

As long as you harbor any thoughts that God is less than a totally loving and supportive entity, these thoughts will block you from achieving the peace of mind and joy that you wish to achieve.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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“We may turn to God when our foundations are shaking, only to discover it is God who is shaking them.”

Hebrew Proverb

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 by Gary Spinell in IT WAS YOU, ALL ALONG

Posted on March 19, 2013 by jmaz479

“Treating any other being or living creature with disrespect is also a sign to the Universe you believe in disrespecting others and thereby attract disrespect to you. People hurt animals often as a way to express their anger and frustration in their own reality. Being an animal lover it pains me deeply when I hear of an animal mistreated in any way. If everybody would understand their own actions and beliefs have created their own feelings of inferiority or frustration in their world, they would not take out their anger on defenseless animals. Further, the action of hurting another animal implies they believe it is acceptable to harm another living thing,so they bring it upon themselves since they believe it is appropriate behavior.

Purposely and knowingly hurting another living creature is demonstrating a belief of one’s own inadequacy. Anyone who is emotionally in balance, believing she is worthy and loved, will treat all other living creatures with respect. Consequently, these people then attract respect to them. The Universal laws of attraction do not apply only to one’s actions towards people, but to all living entities.”

Gary Spinell, in “It Was You, All Along”

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