PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 31st, 2012 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT

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“You don’t need to compete with anybody; you don’t need to compare yourself with anybody. You just need to be what you are, to be love, but real love, not the kind of love that possessed you and makes you believe in love. Not the love that makes you become jealous and possessive of others, and puts you directly in hell with all the tortures and punishments of hell. Not the love that makes you sacrifice in the name of love, or make you hurt yourself and others in the name of love. The symbol of love has become so distorted. Real love is what you were born with. Real love is what you are.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

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“Do you want a way to measure the degree of your rigidity and your deadness? Observe the amount of pain you experience when you lose a cherished idea or person or thing. The pain and the grief betray your clinging, do they not? Why is it you grieve so much at the loved one or the loss of a friend? You never took the time to seriously consider that all things change and pass away.

So death and loss and separation take you by surprise. You choose to live in a little attic of your illusion pretending that things will never change, that things will always be the same. That is why when life bursts into shatter your illusion you experience so much pain. In order to live you must look reality in the face, and then you will shed your fear of losing people and develop a taste for newness and change and uncertainty. You will shed your fear of losing the known and expectantly wait and welcome the unfamiliar and the unknown.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

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“You alone are the architect of your life. You have two choices: One is to follow the lead of the external world and do what society tells you to do or the second option is to follow your genuine self and invent the person you aspire to be. Your heart and soul knows what direction to move and will guide you to the life you were meant to live. If you accept this guidance, the life of your dreams will materialize right in front of your eyes.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 28th, 2012 by Stephen Levine

Posted on May 28, 2012 by jmaz479

“In Zen there is a wonderful statement: “Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.”  That statement shows us the wisdom of letting go of all attempts to maintain control and hide from pain (which thus turns it to suffering). To let go of control is to enter into creation in the act of becoming. We discover who we have always been when we stop attempting to become better than we really are. The very desire to be better than who we are is to have forgotten God. We need not be one iota different to directly experience the absolute vastness of our true being. In going beyond the mind, beyond that which blocks the heart, we discover who we have always been and always will be.”

Stephen Levine, in an essay entitled “Leaning Toward the Light”

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“Once in a vision I came on some woods,
And stood at a fork in the road.
My choices were clear,
Yet I froze with the fear
Of not knowing which way to go.
One road was simple, acceptance of life
The other road offered sweet peace,
When I made my decision
My vision became my release.”

Dan Fogelberg, in the song “Netherlands” (1977)

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 25th, 2012 by Caroline Myss in WHY PEOPLE DON’T HEAL AND HOW THEY CAN

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“We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds – the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to be compassionate and wise.”

Caroline Myss, in “Why People Don’t Heal And How They Can”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 24th, 2012 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on May 24, 2012 by jmaz479

“So many highly respected thinkers in disparate disciplines have concluded that thought, the mind, is the total determiner of how our lives will go. The Dutch philosopher Spinoza said, “I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.” Albert Ellis, the founder of Rational Emotive Therapy, stated, “People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.” “We become what we think about all day long,” according to Ralph Waldo Emerson. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” Shakespeare tells us. Abraham Lincoln said, “People are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.” “Change your thoughts and you change your world” was how Norman Vincent Peale put it. Jesus tells us, “As you think, so shall you be.”

Our futures are formed by the thoughts we hold most often. We literally become what we think about, and we are all given the gift of being able to write our own story.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE AMAZING LAWS OF COSMIC MIND POWER

Posted on May 23, 2012 by jmaz479

“You must give up your false beliefs, opinions and theories and exchange them for the truth which sets you free. You are not a victim of your five senses; neither are you controlled by external conditions or environment. You can change conditions by changing your mental attitude. Your thought and feeling create your destiny and determine your experience. Therefore, you can no longer blame others for your misery, pain, or failure.

When you see clearly that what you think, feel, believe and give mental consent to, consciously or unconsciously, determines all happenings, events, and circumstances of your life, you will cease to fear, resent, condemn and blame others. You will discover there is no one to change but yourself.”

Dr. Joseph Murphy, in “The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power“

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 by Nicolya Christi in 2012 A CLARION CALL

Posted on May 22, 2012 by jmaz479

“If you are unwell and praying for recovery, you may say, “Dear God, please help me to become well again.” This communicates to your higher self (your God Self) to whom you are praying, for we are all God), your DNA, your luminous energy field, and the environment that you are unwell, which further compounds this statement as a belief system and an experience. You are telling yourself you would like to become well again but you are placing that possibility outside of yourself, by requesting “outside” assistance from a higher Source.

What needs to be understood is that this higher Source is not separate from you in any way; it is both within and without. The higher Source is you and you are it. By praying to be well and happy, for inner peace and abundance, you are acknowledging that this state does not yet exist and therefore the environment, which is simply a mirror, will reflect this back to you. As you continue to pray for what you need, you will reinforce your neediness.”

Nicolya Christi, in “2012 A Clarion Call”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 21st, 2012 by Neale Donald Walsch in FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

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“You have come to a “knowingness” that the perfect thing is going to occur. Not that a particular thing is going to occur, but that the “perfect” thing is going to occur. Not that what you prefer is going to occur, but that which is perfect is going to occur. And, as you move toward mastery, these two become one. Something occurs, and you prefer no occurrence other than what is occurring. It your very preferring of whatever is occurring that renders that occurrence perfect. This is called “letting go and letting God.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, “Friendship with God”

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“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don’t bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.”

Joseph Campbell

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 18th, 2012 by Rich Work in AWAKEN TO THE HEALER WITHIN

Posted on May 18, 2012 by jmaz479

“Modern science tells us that we have approximately 100 trillion cells in our bodies, and you are much too busy to be worrying about what 100 trillion cells are doing every day. You have your work to do, schedules to keep, meals to make, and on and on. But you were smart enough to hire a General and put the General in charge. You may know the General as the subconscious mind.

The General has no sense of humor whatsoever. It will do anything you ask it to do. Interestingly enough, you are giving the General orders all day long, and if your orders happen to be, “I’m so sick of this job I could just die,” the General turns around and says, “Well guys, let’s start wrapping things up.” “I guest he/she wants out of here.” The cells literally start to shut down. But if your orders of the day are, “It is my desire to be well, whole and perfect in mind, body and soul,” it turns around and says, “Come on, guys, let’s get busy.”

Rich Work with Ann Marie Groth, in “Awaken to the Healer Within”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 17th, 2012 by Donald Altman in THE MINDFULNESS CODE

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“The next time you feel impatient or ill at ease, pause right where you are and don’t be so quick to run off to something else. Instead, simply notice whatever feelings (perhaps frustration, impatience, boredom) or thoughts precede your rejection of denial of a situation. You might ask yourself, “What is this that I’m experiencing?” See if you can accept each moment for what it is. The means not that you have to avoid judging, which is almost impossible, but that you notice your judging. To do this, even for a moment, is to sharpen your awareness and nurture a willingness to accept what is present in your life. How wondrous!”

Donald Altman, in “The Mindfulness Code”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

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“Too much thinking is a terrible disease. It brings on awfully chronic symptoms such as seriousness. I don’t mind arrogance and self-indulgence, as I’m arrogant and self-indulgent sometimes, and I don’t mind stupidity, as I’ve done loads of stupid things in this life, but seriousness bothers me. I flee from serious people as fast as my chubby little legs will carry me. I find seriousness close to revolting.

This life isn’t serious. It’s a comedy. It’s an awesomely beautiful journey, but it certainly isn’t serious. You can always tell serious people a mile off—they walk funny. The cheeks of their bum are puckered like they’re holding on to a carrot. I think they feel selected by God to hold a carrot up their rear until death.

If you’re too serious, start to laugh a lot; play, hang out with children, put on silly clothes, do light-hearted things and cut people a lot of slack, including yourself. Become big in your feelings, and seriousness melts in the light of your heart’s new found goodness.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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Jeff 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, May 15th, 2012 by Lisette Larkins in DIFFICULT PEOPLE

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“Existing fully in the present means to simply place your attention fully on whatever is being attended to at the moment. You effectively become a silent witness to whatever happens or arises. By remaining in a state of alert awareness, you are the watcher of life, no longer a reactor to it. This produces a profound spiritual pleasure, which is lasting and replaces the shallow pleasure sought by the pain body seeking to gain satisfaction from its addiction to drama. Since most of us have not been aware that the mind is compulsively focused on past or possible future events, it may take some practice to simply do one thing at a time; however, I do not mean to suggest that more “future” is needed to feel becalmed. Right this moment, reading these words, let it become your world and you are one with the present.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 14th, 2012 by John Randolph Price in THE ABUNDANCE BOOK

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“Money is an effect. When you concentrate on the effect, you are forgetting the cause, and when you forget the cause, the effect begins to diminish. When you focus your attention on GETTING money, you are actually shutting off your supply. You must begin this very moment to cease believing that money is your substance, your supply, your support, your security or your safety. Money is not, but God is! When you understand and realize this Truth, the supply flows uninterrupted into perfect and abundant manifestation. You must look to God alone as THE Source, and take your mind completely off the outer effect.

If you look to your job, your employer, your spouse or your investments as the source of your supply, you are cutting off the real Source. In fact, if you look to any human person, place or condition for your supply, you are shutting down the flow. If you give power to any mortal as even being the channel for your supply, you are limiting your good.”

John Randolph Price, in “The Abundance Book”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 11th, 2012 by Paramahansa Yogananda in THE LAW OF SUCCESS

Posted on May 11, 2012 by jmaz479

“Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things, people, and conditions. Good habits of thought enable you to attract benefits and opportunities. Bad habits of thought attract you to materially-minded persons and to unfavorable environments.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda, in “The Law of Success”  

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