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

Posted on November 2, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on November 1, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on October 31, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on October 30, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on October 29, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on October 26, 2012 by jmaz479

“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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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, October 25th, 2012 by Dr Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

Posted on October 25, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on October 24, 2012 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on October 23, 2012 by jmaz479

“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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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 Monday, October 22nd, 2012 by Polly Campbell in IMPERFECT SPIRITUALITY

Posted on October 22, 2012 by jmaz479

“Life is not about feeling bad, it’s about noticing whatever it is you are feeling and working with that to live authentically. You may not always like what you notice and you definitely won’t want to go through it all, but get over yourself and get going. This is not wasted time. All this pain and crap and anxiety is motivating. It’s illuminating, if you’re paying attention. When you do, you see that life resides in all of these moments – the ones that feel good and the ones that don’t. Nothing is void, static, or empty. Nothing is meaningless and it’s all a seed of compassion.”

Polly Campbell, in “Imperfect Spirituality”

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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, October 19th, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on October 19, 2012 by jmaz479

“Many traditional religionists might argue that having “faith” means we may not question established religious doctrine, for the sheer act of doubting what we have been taught to believe is to be considered blasphemous behavior. As this quotation from Fr. Anthony DeMello illustrates, however, that is really not what faith is all about:

“An openness to the truth, no matter what the consequences, no matter where it leads you and when you don’t even know where it’s going to lead you. That’s faith. Not belief, but faith. Your beliefs give you a lot of security, but faith is insecurity. You don’t know. You’re ready to follow and you’re open, you’re wide open! You’re ready to listen.”

This doesn’t mean that you become gullible and immediately accept new information to replace the old, but instead you learn to question everything – new and old – with an open mind. It also is essential for you to understand there is nothing at all irreverent about questioning traditional religious concepts, for even Buddha himself cautioned against blindly embracing his teachings when he said:

“Monks and scholars must not accept my words out of respect,but must analyze them the way that a goldsmith analyzes gold, by cutting, scraping, rubbing, melting.”

In developing your own spiritual philosophy, it is very important that you, too, adopt a similar approach.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 18th, 2012 by Lisette Larkins in DIFFICULT PEOPLE

Posted on October 18, 2012 by jmaz479

“The single most effective spiritual practice when applied daily is to simplify your life and be quiet. Yet the mind says, “No!” we’re not doing this now. The mind will attempt to divert you. It says, “Look over there. That’s a problem that needs to be taken are of.” The mind doesn’t like spiritual practice that quiets its compulsivity. It will insist that it has more important things to do. It will remind you, again and again, particularly in the midst of your attempt to quiet it, that there’s an important problem that can’t be ignored.

This is how it gets its way over and over again, until you become aware of just how much deep unconscious pleasure has been attained by using these destructive strategies. The enlightened being responds to the mind, “No, I’m looking at you. I’m looking at how you attempt to operate in me.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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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, October 17th, 2012 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Posted on October 17, 2012 by jmaz479

“The major obstacle to resolving problems in our lives is that we deal with them as though they are something outside of us. The truth is that every problem is an outward manifestation of our state of consciousness. When our consciousness is clear and at peace, the problem disappears.

Every attempt we make to resolve a problem by changing something outside of ourselves will be unsuccessful. It might temporarily ease the situation, but the problem will not be released permanently until there is a change of consciousness.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 by Rhonda Byrne, in THE SECRET

Posted on October 16, 2012 by jmaz479

“It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. Whether it is jealousy, resentment, dissatisfaction, or feelings of “not enough,” those feelings cannot bring you what you want. They can only return to you more of what you do not want. Those negative emotions are blocking your own good coming to you. If you want a new car but are not grateful for the car you have, that will be the dominant frequency you are sending out.

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. You will have locked into the frequency of gratitude and all good things will be yours.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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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 Monday, October 15th, 2012 by Polly Campbell in IMPERFECT SPIRITUALITY

Posted on October 15, 2012 by jmaz479

“Acceptance takes you out of that pattern of pain and resistance. It is not giving in. It is not giving up. Acceptance is not resignation. “It’s getting clear about what the reality is, to allow the moment to be without any resistance whatsoever,” says Martha Beck. She describes it as, “saying yes to the mess.”

Accepting the situation does not mean you need to put up with bad behavior or dangerous conditions. It means only that you see the situation for what it is. When you do this you get out from under the disappointment of missed expectations and new possibilities become visible. Sometimes, it’s the difference between an authentic life and one leashed by delusion.”

Polly Campbell, in “Imperfect Spirituality”

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