Best of PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 21st, 2013 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

“Whenever you are insecure about what may happen in the future, just remember this: In the past six months or one year you were so insecure about events which when they finally came you were able to handle somehow. Thanks to the energy and the resources that that particular present moment gave you, and not to all the previous worrying, which only made you suffer needlessly and weakened you emotionally.

So say to yourself: “If there is anything I can do about the future, right now, I shall do it. Then I’m going to just leave it alone and settle down to enjoy the present moment, because all the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy I need to deal with them.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, June 20th, 2013 by Annemarie Greenwood and Marissa Campbell in LIFE: LIVING IN FULFILLMENT EVERY DAY

“Limiting beliefs create a mold, a fabrication, very much like creating a papier mache ball from a newspaper and a balloon…Labels and judgments, experiences and impressions accumulate over time. Layer by layer, we take these truths and plaster them over the top of our true potential, just like gluing layers of newspaper strips around the balloon, until it forms a mold, or a shell – the ego, or burden body, or shadow self…However, this shell is not a genuine reflection of who we are. In fact, we’re still in there, just like the balloon…Inside we are prefect and whole, but on the outside we have a big, bulky façade, or sham, as our identity.”

Annemarie Greenwood and Marissa Campbell, in “LIFE: Living in Fulfillment Every Day”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY

“Starting with your own past, think of a time in which something happened you did not understand. Now, as you look back as an adult, as an older, more mature self, you can understand precisely why you drew that incident to you and what you learned from it. You can see as you look back with the larger picture in mind that when you did not get what you thought you wanted, there was a reason for not having it. Perhaps not having it changed your life path. Maybe having it would have held you back in some way, or maybe it was something you wanted from a smaller, less evolved part of you.

As you look back with your memories, reviewing past relationships and career paths (even those you are still in but letting go of), see how they served you. What you have now would not be possible without experiences. You cannot leave something until you love it. The more you hate something the more you are bound to it, and the more you love it the freer you are. So as you love your past, you are free from it.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

“The principal reasons for failure are: 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 thing 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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 17th, 2013 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

“When you are filled with guilt, your energy is awash with anguish and self-reproach. You are so down on yourself that you feel unworthy of receiving blessings from the universe or anyone in it. Persistent feelings of guilt will prevent you from manifesting anything worthwhile, because you are attracting the very same things that you are putting out to the universe. More anguish, more reasons to feel bad, and more evidence to prove that you are not worth what you desire.

When you put past behaviors into a context of learning from them and moving on, regardless of how horrible they may seem to you, you clear yourself of the negativity surrounding these actions. Forgiving yourself means that you are able to extend love to yourself even when your perceived shortcomings are painfully evident to you.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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Best of PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 14th, 2013 by Eric Butterworth in DISCOVER THE POWER WITHIN YOU

“Life is consciousness. The problems we face indicate that our wires are down. We need to repair the break within ourselves. The only existence an error condition has, as far as we are concerned, is that which we give it in our own thinking. Withdraw the thought about it and it fades into nothingness. What matters to us, in reality is not people or things or conditions in themselves, but the thoughts and feelings we harbor concerning them. It is not the conduct of others but our reaction to it that makes or mars our life experience.”

Eric Butterworth, in “Discover the Power Within You”

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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, June 13th, 2013 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

“Self-alienation is the root of our suffering and frustration in a relationship. Believing there is something wrong with us distorts our perception of our divine character. From this distortion springs aberrant mental and emotional states that result in cruel and pathetic behavior. Fanatically trying to be perfect and acceptable by the standards that others have set for us – so that we will be loved, adored, and taken care of – makes us neurotic, even psychotic, when it becomes too much for us to bear and our true self feels completely repressed.

A sign of self-alienation is that, instead of expressing our innate beauty and divine characteristics by doing what we want and living in a way that supports our spiritual and creative evolution and development, we endeavor to become happy and prosperous by molding ourselves into someone we are not.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 by Rich Work GOD, THIS IS A GOOD BOOK!

“To experience fear, judgment and doubt, you have played the role of the victim. To be the victim is to see everything outside of yourself, giving you a reason to blame others and blame circumstances beyond your control for your failures and misfortunes. To be the victim is to give away your power to others – to believe that others are responsible for your health, your livelihood, your food, your security. To be the victim is to strip away every part of your conscious awareness of your divine being. To be a master is to reverse this process and realize that everything that you seek is within.”

Rich Work, in “God, This is a Good Book!”

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BONUS PONDER on THIS by Theresa Crabtree in MAYAN MESSAGES: DAILY GUIDE TO SELF-EMPOWERMENT

“It is wise to review your behaviors daily. As objectively as possible, evaluate your reactions to various situations: the words you speak, the thoughts you think, your behaviors, etc. You may discover some situations which you would have liked to have handled more gracefully. It is good to role-play in your mind a new way to act if and when a similar situation occurs. Practice this often until it becomes second nature to you.””

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

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, June 11th, 2013 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

“The Universe offers all things to all people through the law of attraction. You have the ability to choose what you want to experience. Do you want there to be enough for you and for everyone? Then choose that and know, “There is abundance of all things.” “There is an unlimited supply.” “There is so much magnificence.” Each of us has the ability to tap into that unlimited invisible supply through our thoughts and feelings, and bring it into our experience. So choose for You, because you’re the only one who can.

[According to] Lisa Nichols: Everything you want – all the joy, love, abundance, prosperity, bliss – it’s there, ready for you to grab ahold of it. And you’ve got to get hungry for it. You’ve got to be intentional. And when you become intentional and on fire for what you want, the Universe will deliver every single thing that you’ve been wanting. Recognize the beautiful and wonderful things around you, and bless and praise them. And on the other side, the things that aren’t currently working for the way you want them to work, don’t spend your energy faulting or complaining. Embrace everything that you want to you can get more of it.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 10th, 2013 by M. Scott Peck, M.D. in THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED & BEYOND

“Life is difficult because it is a series of problems, and the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their nature, evoke in us many uncomfortable feelings: frustration, grief, sadness, loneliness, guilt, regret, anger, fear, anxiety, anguish or despair. These feelings are often as painful as any kind of physical suffering. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us that we call them problems.

Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life finds its meaning. Problems call forth our courage and wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”

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

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“Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. It is the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now.”

Deepak Chopra

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 7th, 2013 by Rhonda Joy Eagle in DISCOVER YOUR SOUL SONG

“For millennia, music and voice has been a way to move us. It exhilarates us, excites us, saddens us, and mellows us. It has a profound effect on the very way we function from moment to moment. If you think about it, we are actually a conglomeration of several systems that are vibrating at different rates and frequencies that somehow manage to communicate with each other fairly successfully.

This implies that everything around us vibrates in such a way that its atoms and molecules actually cohere to create one form or another. So one could say that our bodies are several systems, such as the nervous system, the vascular system, the respiratory system, and each are each vibrating and communicating is some way. So if this is so, we would hope that the way in which this happens would be harmonious, in harmony, to create a sense of wholeness and well-being as opposed to disharmony, creating a sense of dis-ease.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could find a way to actively create harmony at any given time? To recognize dis-harmony and bring ourselves back into a harmonious state and coherence? Using sound, this is very possible. By tuning into our bodies and senses, we can create a state of balance by simply toning into our systems. Even if you have never sung a single note, you can still literally hum yourself to wellness.”

Rhonda Joy Eagle, in “Discover Your Soul Song”

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, June 6th, 2013 by Daphne Rose Kingma in THE TEN THINGS TO DO WHEN YOUR LIFE FALLS APART

“Learning to love, loving more, that’s the bottom line of what a crisis is really all about. Through it, we are being asked to expand beyond the inordinate focus on ourselves – our obsession with what we need, want, and desire – to notice what we can share, how we can serve and be of help to one another. In short, we are being asked to enlarge the circle of our love. Of course, it’s not always easy to do this. It may be unfamiliar. But when we do engage, when we see and hear and respond to one another, life starts to seem less scary.

The more you get and give help, the more it seems that you will actually make it through your own unbelievable painful passage. You sense that there really is a new future. Even in the heartbreaking present you realize that you’re not alone. Not only that, but instead of wearing out your biceps holding up a thousand-pound iron defense shield in front of your heart, you can let down your guard, let down your hair, give up your pride, have a good cry, and, in gratitude, receive the love that’s coming for you.”

Daphne Rose Kingma, in “The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 by Doreen Virtue in GRATITUDE, A WAY OF LIFE BY LOUISE HAY AND FRIENDS

“It’s easy enough to feel gratitude during the obvious moments, like when a friend goes out of her way to help you, or when you receive a gift especially suited to your liking. But what about those other moments – the ones not so obviously calling for gratitude? Is it possible to stay centered in appreciation when we really don’t appreciate what’s going on around us?

So often, our gratitude skips beats like a record with a gash across its center. When situations seem to warrant it, our hearts swell with appreciation. The other moments, though, we forget the eternal powers that are constantly wafting through our lives. We figure, “What’s to be grateful for?” – that is, unless we are open and aware of the delicate and subtle lessons and miracles back-dropped against everyday moments. Because, in truth, there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful.”

Doreen Virtue, in an essay entitled “Unconditional Gratitude” in “Gratitude, A Way of Life” by Louise Hay and Friends

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 by Cherie Carter-Scott in IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES

“Being unattached does not mean being disinterested or removed; rather, it means remaining neutral in your judgments of circumstances and in your desire for a specific outcome. In other words, if your goal is to amass a million dollars, it is natural and right for you to pursue that goal. The key to serenity, however, lies in your ability to hold lightly to the image of yourself reaching that goal. In doing so you will feel peaceful in your situation regardless of the outcome. Unattachment means you are not bound by your expectations of how things should turn out, and that you are willing to let go.”

Chérie Carter-Scott, in “If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 3rd, 2013 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

“If you don’t have enough time to do all the things you need to do, it’s a sign of your lack of control. It’s a manifestation of a lack of good boundaries. You have to set boundaries and get rid of some of the things you’ve chosen to do, or reduce your obligations. You have to pull back and get control by eliminating the less important stuff and staying with the actions that are comfortable and reasonable.

Being a workaholic is a disease of the ego. It often comes from a poor self-image, which requires you to overachieve to win approval. Don’t become a power freak, and don’t become a money freak. Get a life first, and do the other stuff as much as you need or want to – everything in moderation.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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