BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 12th, 2012 by Stuart Wilde in MIRACLES

“Universal Law is impartial and unemotional. It has no way of knowing what you want, nor does it discriminate between your hopes and aspirations, likes and dislikes – it is pure energy. It accepts whatever thoughts, feelings, and actions you project and reflects them back to you unemotionally in the form of events that you experience day-to-day.

In much the same was as electricity illuminates both a brothel and the vicar’s tea party, the Universal Law does not differentiate between types of energy in your life. It will give you anything you believe in – no more and no less. Therefore the key to understanding miracles is to look at the beliefs you express as thoughts and feelings.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Miracles”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 9th, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“…The desire to know what will occur, and the urge to make detailed plans to ensure one’s own security down the road, are both related to the ego’s need for safety as a result of its deeply held fear of death. You can deny the truth in this, arguing that it is only prudent that a person plan for the future. However, if you are able to look deep within yourself, you will realize that it is indeed an accurate observation concerning human nature.

To varying degrees, every single one of us is apprehensive about the future (i.e., the unknown), and so we burn amazing amounts of energy trying to get a hold on something that quite simply is impossible to grasp. According to Fr. Anthony DeMello:

“So why are you anxious? Can you, for all your anxieties, add a single moment to your life? Why bother about tomorrow? Is there a life after death? Why bother about tomorrow? Get into today. Someone once said, “Life is what happens to us while we’re busy making other plans.” That’s pathetic.”

These certainly are powerful words, and yet it is really tough to challenge DeMello’s observations. Think about it carefully for a moment or two. What possible benefit can be derived from feeling anxious about the future? The answer is none, unless of course you happen to enjoy experiencing the feeling of anxiety. Moreover, what is the payoff for spending a great deal of time planning one’s life in minute detail? Perhaps all of this preparation helps people to assuage their fear of the future to some extent, but it quite obviously prohibits them from truly enjoying their present moments.

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, November 8th, 2012 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

“Every single time you take in a breath and then exhale, you are engaged in a process of giving and receiving that is vital to the material and spiritual world. With each inhalation you take in the oxygen and nitrogen that you must have in order to exist, and with each exhalation
you send back the carbon dioxide that supplies the entire plant world. The cycle of generous giving and receiving is exactly the same as the very act of breathing.

Look around you and notice how everything in our universe is a result of giving and receiving. The entire food chain represents a giving of life and taking of life, and then a giving back in an endless cycle of material manifestation. The worm that the bird eats, and the droppings from the bird, and the eating of the bird, and the recycling of the meat of the bird, and on and on it goes.

There is no place for any of it to go other than here in this universe. It does not leave and then reenter. It is all simply a process of giving and receiving different forms of energy.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

“There is nothing, n-o-t-h-i-n-g, that did not begin as a thought. The Universe was brought forth from an idea in God-Mind. You and everything else in this Universe began as an idea. All that is and all that has been and all that will ever be, began or will begin with a thought.

Thoughts are the power of the world. They are the very blueprint for our lives. And just as God brought forth the world with a thought, we bring forth our world with our thoughts. God creates people, and people create their conditions. There is a cooperation between God and each of us as we create our world. But whereas in God-Mind all ideas are for our good, we take these ideas from God-Mind and filter them through our minds to create our world. That can be a marvelous thing, except when our minds are choked with perceived limitations and false beliefs.

It is from our thoughts that we systematically draw the people, places, and circumstances into our lives that eventually become our reality. Each thought is a living “brick” that, piled on one another, constructs our future. True, it is action which shapes our material world, but actions are nothing more than three-dimensional thoughts. It is through our thoughts that we give life to the world. To us have been given the power to create and destroy.”

Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 by FRIEDEMANN SCHAUB IN THE FEAR & ANXIETY SOLUTION

“…The current paradigm of allopathic medicine doesn’t encourage us to trust or utilize our own innate wisdom and healing potential. Instead it fosters a sense of dependency, disempowerment, and fear of illness. In new mind-body-spirit healing perspectives, illness is not the enemy of health, but an integral component of a powerful organic system, which has evolved throughout hundreds of thousands of years. The primary purpose of illness is to alert us that we are, on some level, distressed and out of balance. To heal and regain our natural state of wholeness — the alignment of mind, body, and spirit — we need to identify and address the deeper root causes of this stress and imbalance. Even more important, we must learn how to take advantage of our innate healing powers.”

Friedemann Schaub, MD, PhD, in “The Fear & Anxiety Solution”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 5th, 2012 by Shakti Gawain in LIVING IN THE LIGHT

“When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. This leads to feelings of helplessness, emptiness, a sense of being a victim; eventually to anger and rage, and, if these feelings are also suppressed, to depression and deadness. We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage. None of these are very
positive alternatives.

The true solution is to re-educate ourselves to listen to and trust the inner truths that come to us through our intuitive feelings. We must learn to act on them, even though it may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we “should” do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority. To live this way is
to risk losing everything that we have held onto for reasons of external (false) security, but we will gain integrity, wholeness, true power, creativity, and the REAL security of knowing that we are in alignment with the power of the Universe.”

Shakti Gawain, in “Living in the Light”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 2nd, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“During an average month in the United States, we are barraged with literally thousands of messages originating from a variety of sources, the majority of which are designed to get us to buy either a product or an idea. As a result of this media-driven culture, we have millions of people taking on significant amounts of debt just so they can “own” and become attached to and/or burdened by more and more stuff…

I used to participate in a bit of that behavior myself, until one day when I heard Dr. Wayne Dyer talk about the disease called more. This serious affliction results from having a thought like, “I know I’ll be happier or feel more fulfilled if I just have a new home, or car, or stereo, etc.” The reality is that as long as we believe that we need something outside of ourselves to bring us happiness, we will constantly have to buy more things, and that, my friend, is an endless trap…

This does not mean that you need to stop being a consumer of anything other than essential items…it is important for you to keep money circulating in your life. Rather, what you need to do is come to the understanding that whatever you buy is meant to serve you in some way, and that at the most fundamental level you never really own anything in the first place – you just use it. This is because even if you hold the title to something, the fact that you will not live forever means that you never truly own it, since at the moment of your death it will be passed on to someone else anyway.

This is not to suggest that you shouldn’t appreciate or take care of the various goods that you purchase, for it is both sensible and practical that you do. What is important however is to not get so focused on protecting and caring for your possessions that the stuff itself begins to control you.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, November 1st, 2012 by William L. Murtha in DYING FOR A CHANGE

“Shutting out your internal pain is not right, regardless of what social conditioning teaches you. Instead, open up to your pain. Invite it in and listen to it, for a voice heard and understood will not then keep knocking on your door.

This is the greatest misunderstanding our culture has adopted. We should not hide away our collective pain. Being open to our feelings is where our salvation will be found. Do not try to mask your painful feelings, for all emotions are your messengers. They are bringing you the vital signposts needed on your personal journey.

What you have done in the past is not uncommon. You have always glossed over your negative emotions, plastering them over with positive thinking. Another way you’ve coped with it has been to keep yourself busy. But I tell you this: You should not run away and disregard your sadness or negative emotions, for they carry the antidote that you need to help move you to another level of understanding. And they carry the key that will open the door to a more enlightened way of living.”

William L. Murtha, in “Dying for a Change”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 by Polly Campbell in IMPERFECT SPIRITUALITY

“Even the good among us think about the merits of revenge. Anthropologists say it’s a universal trait to want to go after those who came after you. In other cultures, revenge worked to deter those who might do future harm. In intimate relationships, it doesn’t work so well.

Forgiveness, another evolutionary quality, is a better way to go. Research out of Stanford University indicates that those who cannot forgive, experience greater stress and health problems including heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and lower immune response. Hanging onto the stress of what happened can actually make you sick. Forgiveness is the antidote.”

Polly Campbell, in “Imperfect Spirituality”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

“Of course, anger is a normal human emotion; however, the key is to express the anger and work on letting it go as soon as possible. To allow anger to linger within your being is a dangerous matter. Anger hinders you from expressing your spirit and distorts your judgment profusely. Anger tears away at your ability and capacity to think clearly and feel happiness. Anger and resentment will eliminate peace and contentment from your life.

Holding on to anger is a definite guarantee to an extremely low quality of life including decreased physical health, depression, frustration, rage, helplessness, and countless other negative energies that poison your soul. There is nothing productive or effective about holding on to anger and harboring resentments for any significant period of time. Each day you must cleanse yourself of the debris of anger and other toxins that threaten to take away your quality of living.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 29th, 2012 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

“People’s feelings would not annoy you unless you had similar feelings, attitudes or behaviors – however minor – yourself…Imagine that other people in your life are playing out roles to mirror back to you certain parts of yourself. When they act in ways you don’t like, they are mirroring back to you a part of yourself that you haven’t yet learned to love.

As you learn to love and find the beauty in others, you will become transparent to their energies. You will also be sending love to the part of yourself that has similar feelings. As you learn to love every part of yourself, you will raise your vibration and no longer attract those kinds of people into your life.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 26th, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“One way to develop your open-mindedness is to begin to observe yourself as you are in the process of being exposed to new concepts. To do this, you essentially take the role of a witness to the process, as well as being an active participant within it. While it may sound somewhat difficult to do, it’s really not. All that’s required is for you to actively pay attention to what you are reading and hearing, and then acknowledge your judgments one-by-one as they crop up.

When you learn to witness yourself in this way, you develop the skill to be able to immediately recognize when you are judging, and then in that moment remind yourself to remain open-minded. As you begin working on developing your witnessing skills, simply do your best to remain patient with yourself when you’re finding it difficult to remain open-minded, and remember that practice makes perfect.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 25th, 2012 by Dr Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

“In your mind, right here and now, whatever age you are, think back ten years and imagine yourself at that age. Examine what you thought about at that time, how you dressed, what you felt, whom you admired. How much of what you experienced then led you to where you are today? Now, go back ten more years in your mind and see how each and every experience and learning led you to the next place and the next place, until you again arrive at today.

If you are candid, you will discover that each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next, up until this very moment…Simply see that each experience led to the next and offered you something to either grow on or not grow on. You had to have those experiences, and the evidence for that point of view is that you did. Pure and simple. You did!…As you go backward in your mind to your childhood, from the perspective of the present moment, and earnestly look at all of your life experiences, the good and the bad, the terrible and the ecstatic, you begin to know right in this moment that there is some kind of invisible force running through your physical life that connects it all together.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 from the BHAGAVAD GITA

“For that which is born, death is certain, and for that which is dead, birth is certain. You should not grieve over the unavoidable. The Supreme Self which dwells in all bodies can never be slain. Weapons cut it not; fire burns it not; water wets it not; the wind does not wither it. Eternal, universal, unchanging, immovable, the Self is the same forever. Dwelling in all bodies, the Self can never be slain. Therefore, you should not grieve for any creature.”

The Bhagavad Gita, transalated by Eknath Easwaran

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

“The principle reasons for failure: Lack of confidence and too much effort. Many people block answers to their prayers by failing to fully comprehend the workings of their subconscious mind. When you know how your mind functions, you gain a measure of confidence. You must remember whenever your subconscious mind accepts an idea, it immediately begins to execute it. It uses all its mighty resources to that end and mobilizes all the mental and spiritual laws of your deeper mind. This law is true for good or bad ideas. Consequently, if you use it negatively, it brings trouble, failure, and confusion. When you use it constructively, it brings guidance, freedom, and peace of mind.

The right answer is inevitable when your thoughts are positive, constructive, and loving. From this it is perfectly obvious that the only you have to do in order to overcome failure is to get your subconscious to accept your idea or request by feeling its reality now, and the law of your mind will do the rest. Turn over your request with faith and confidence, and your subconscious will take over and answer for you.”

Dr. Joseph Murphy, in “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”

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