BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 12th, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“The adage “do what you love and the money will follow” is very commonly known, but just why is this so? In response to this question, reflect upon the following passage from Arnold Patent:

When you choose to make doing what you love the core experience of your life, you move into alignment with the Universe. Immediately, the infinite supply of energy is available to you. You feel the aliveness that comes from having the unlimited energy of the Universe flow through you. This aliveness influences the energy signals you emit, and the people and circumstances that will support the continuation of your feeling of aliveness are attracted to you.

Stop for a moment and think about something that you really love to do. Now get in touch with the feelings that you normally experience while doing this activity. Assuming you were able to identify such a pursuit, it is likely that you would typically experience at least three distinct feelings – a feeling of joy or bliss, a feeling of being in the flow, (a.k.a. effortless accomplishment), and a feeling of time literally standing still as you instinctively stay focused in the present moment. As the preceding passage from Mr. Patent infers, these feelings arise because you are effectively tapping into the energy of your Higher Self, or to put it another way, you are allowing the limitless “I” to express itself instead of the fearful, self-conscious “me.”

These times are very magical, because they give you an opportunity to step outside of your active conscious mind and truly become a channel for the Divine. It really is an exhilarating feeling, because you are not really thinking about what you’re doing, but rather you are feeling it.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 11th, 2012 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

“If we want to change worlds, then we have to change time slots. There’s no point in trying to watch Seinfeld at 8:00 if it’s on at 7:00. And there’s no point in trying to find miracles in the past or future when they only exist in the present. I always used to wonder what my future would be like. When I was done obsessing about the future, I would be content for about five minutes, and then I would begin to obsess about the past. It’s clear the ego has no intention of letting us enjoy the present.

And that’s because the present is holy ground – the only place where eternity meets linear time. The past is nowhere except in your mind, and the future is nowhere except in your mind. The ego is intent on having us live in one of those two realms as a way of making sure we never live at all. If God dwells only in the present, then living in the past or future is bound to be painful because it leaves Him out. Living fully in the present, the Holy Instant, is literally death to the ego – and that is why we resist it. As long as we identify with the life of the go, reality itself seems scary.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 by Deepak Chopra in HOW TO KNOW GOD

“In the ancient Vedas it says that the part of us that doesn’t believe in death will never die. This simple definition of the soul is not a bad one. It accurately describes everyone’s secret belief that death may be real for some but not for us. Psychologists are impatient with this feeling of personal immortality. They claim that we use it to defend ourselves against the inescapable fact that one day we will die. But what if the opposite is true? What if feeling immortal and beyond death is the most real thing about us?”

Deepak Chopra, in “How to Know God”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 by Edwin Harkness Spina in MYSTIC SECRETS REVEALED

“A wide variety of physical stimuli and sensory input can affect your being. Are you filling your body with artificial sweeteners, fake fats, junk food and other toxins? Do you subject your objective senses to a non-stop barrage of mainstream news and fear-based content? Do you surround yourself with negative people that take pleasure in tearing you down?

When your boat is taking on water, it’s much more effective to stop drilling holes in the hull and patch them up before you begin bailing out the water. This means, stop filling your physical environment with negative, draining energies.

Now, it’s true that these thoughts and beliefs will still exist in our world, but by turning off your TV, you can, at least, shut the door to the non-stop reinforcement of these energy-sapping thoughts. And it’s also true that spiritual power can offset base thoughts, but why expend any energy undoing something that can be fixed by the simple physical action of turning off your TV?”

Edwin Harkness Spina, in “Mystic Secrets Revealed”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 8th, 2012 by JB Lewis in THE MIRACLE OF YOU: BACK TO CONSCIOUSNESS

“Since time is not a real factor in the Absolute, creation appears instant since all that exists, exists right now. That would explain why God is never in a hurry because, to be in a hurry, God would have to be aware of time, and God is not. There is no separation from things happening then, now or someday. It is all happening at this very moment since God happens all at once – not in segments. Things seem like they take forever to us because we constantly monitor the clock and calendar we’ve created.

We’ve separated One Moment of Now into a grid of time and segmented the rotation of the Earth and the passing of light to dark into day and night. Just to think very simply, go into space and look back at our solar system – all that will be seen are planets orbiting the Sun; there is no giant watch tracking all the movements of the Universe. Time is a human conception and plays no part in creation. If you’re ‘waiting’ on something to be created you are putting your focus on something that can only exist as an intangible idea and will therefore only create the experience of ‘waiting on time’.”

JB Lewis, in “The Miracle of You: Back to Consciousness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 5th, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“An attachment to maintaining or improving one’s physical appearance will always lead to anxiety and disappointment, for the simple reason that the human body is constantly in a state of change. Despite this obvious fact, each year millions of people spend literally billions of dollars worldwide in an effort to either obtain or preserve a more youthful and attractive physical appearance.

To clarify, I am not referring to a fundamental caring for the body through exercise, proper diet, and grooming, or cosmetic surgeries required as a result of illnesses, accidents, or other traumas. I am referring to those nonessential medical procedures: (i.e., face lifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, breast implants, and so on) that are designed to improve body appearance as a means of enhancing self-esteem. The key problem with these types of procedures is that they are grounded in the premise that our external packaging is who we are…

What you really are is a divine spark of God, an eternal being who inhabits a particular physical body for a finite period of time. You are therefore a spiritual being having a human experience, and your body is the means for both experiencing this planet and expressing yourself. So while you must never forget that your body is a miraculous creation that deserves proper care and respect, also remember to avoid becoming attached to its appearance. Your continually changing body is merely a container that houses the real you—your Spirit.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 4th, 2012 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE

“Just imagine if you really have free will, which is the power to make your own choices. Do you really choose to sabotage your own happiness or your own love? Do you choose to judge yourself, to blame yourself, to live you life in shame and in guilt? Do you choose to believe that you are bad, that you are not beautiful, that you don’t deserve to be happy or healthy or prosperous because you are not worth it? Do you choose to constantly fight with the people you love the most? If you have free will, you choose the opposite. I think it is obvious that our will is not free.

When you put your faith in truth instead of in lies, your choices change. When your will is free, your choices come from your integrity, not from the program, that liar in your head. Now you believe whatever you want to believe, and when you have the power to believe whatever you want, something very interesting happens. What you want is to love. You don’t want anything else but love because you know that what is not love is not the truth!”

Don Miguel Ruiz, in “The Voice of Knowledge”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 by Gary Spinell in BEYOND INTENT

“We are not the best judges of when we are ready to receive and reach our goal. Here’s the key ingredient on how to assure you obtain your goal, and why most people do not achieve their goal:

Regardless of how much physical, mental, and emotional energy you put toward your goal, you must be willing to live another day if you do not achieve your goal. Too often people will say and believe that nothing else is more important in their life but to achieve their goal. When we put that much pressure on the Universe and ourselves to succeed, we stifle all other possibilities of what we can achieve and obtain in our life.

I am not saying that you should not target and point toward success. However, if you believe that you have failed and life is not worth living if you do not achieve your goal, you’ve set yourself up for failure. Your sense of urgency will produce enormous negative energy. And when you see that you might not be any closer today as compared to yesterday, although you may not say it out loud, internally you hear the clock ticking.

You may begin to internalize how you are living another day without your goal. From there you will believe that you are not happy in your present mode because your goal is not fulfilled. All of this action sends a massive amount of negative energy into the Universe, which complies by giving you more of the same result, which is keeping you in a state of waiting and escalating impatience.”

Gary Spinell, in “Beyond Intent”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 by Laura Alden Kamm in INTUITIVE WELLNESS

“Here is a simple way to release mind chatter. You can do this practice alone or with a partner. Take ten minutes out of your day and sit and just let your thoughts roll from your mind and out of your mouth. Whatever thought comes to your mind, speak it. Let the thought that sits behind or connects to the previous thought rise up and be spoken also. One after another the thoughts will come rolling off your tongue. It doesn’t matter if they seem connected or not; just let them roll – no judgment, no self-counseling (if you are doing this by yourself), no fixing, or stopping – just let go of your thoughts.

The power of release comes in the vocalization of the thoughts, so speak them boldly. Lift up your voice, intone, and release your emotions. Let your thoughts and voice join to let go of the chattering that fills your mind. After this practice, you’ll feel relieved and refreshed. Do it regularly to avoid mental buildup.”

Laura Alden Kamm, in “Intuitive Wellness”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 1st, 2012 by Nan Yielding in THINGS I NEVER LEARNED IN SUNDAY SCHOOL

“For over two thousand years, Christians have seen Jesus through the eyes of the gospel writers, believing they were disciples of Jesus and eyewitnesses to the events they described. Many may be surprised, as I was, to learn this is not the case. Nearly all modern biblical scholars agree the gospels were written several decades after Jesus’ death by unknown authors, none of which knew Jesus personally or were present at any of the events they described. Not only is this evidenced by the number of discrepancies in the various accounts, but even the author of Luke writes the information he recorded was “handed on” to him (Luke 1:2).

Furthermore, following tradition, the writers did not write historical facts; they wrote stories about Jesus – much as a fiction author would do today – based on hearsay that spread after his death. They even copied content from other manuscripts that were in circulation. In other words, the gospels were created from received information, filtered and modified by imaginative writers.

According to E.P. Sanders and others, the goal was not to provide a biography of Jesus, but rather to express and reinforce a faith-based perspective of this man who walked the dusty roads of Palestine. As C.H. Dodd puts it, each gospel was “a report of certain happenings, together with, and inseparably interwoven with, an interpretation of these happenings.” Yet centuries of Christians have taken these accounts at face value and experienced little difficulty in explaining away inconsistencies.”

Nan Yielding, in “Things I Never Learned in Sunday School”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, September 28th, 2012 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“The past only has an impact on the present when you continue to waste your powerful thought and feeling energies on something that no longer exists at all, other than in your own mind. Whatever it was that happened is finished now, and no matter how uncomfortable it was for you, you need to come to the understanding that at some level you chose it, and that it helped to build your character and make you a stronger individual.

Whenever you do find yourself wondering why something turned out the way it did, I suggest calling to mind the old adage that often times “God does work in mysterious ways.” The truth is, you really don’t know the “big picture.” So, even though you might be inclined to feel sad about a certain event in your past, make the decision to accept the realization that there is a higher order to things, and that something good will eventually come of it.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, September 27th, 2012 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

“A vast amount of human beings destroy precious moments throughout their lives due to unnecessary worry. The important thing to realize is the fact that worry does absolutely nothing productive for the past, present, or future. Why continue to do something over and over again that is completely unproductive and actually quite unhealthy. Would you walk out of your house and begin digging a hole without a purpose or a reason for doing so? Continuing to dig and dig after blisters form on your hands and your energy is being depleted for no apparent reason? Hours, days, and months go by and you continue to dig with no productive or logical reasoning. Hopefully, you would not do this, so why do you continue to worry?”

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

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

“See all people as perfect, knowing they make their choices dependent on their current belief codes. It is not your place to judge or criticize them. Know that each of you has everything within yourself to break these codes and to live a life full of wonder, excitement, peace and joy.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 by Rev. Christian Sorenson in GRATITUDE, A WAY OF LIFE BY LOUISE HAY AND FRIENDS

“Life is an abundant broadcasting system, just waiting for us to tune in to its infinite varieties. As we turn our attention to the positive side through praise and appreciation, we bring ourselves into harmony with this giving frequency. There seems to be a magnetic force that draws our awareness to the ever-present and expanding good.

It’s as if our conscious and subconscious work diligently to attract only those experiences that support our state of mind. Looking through the eyes of gratitude, we become a channel to bring forth more things to be grateful for. We are told to “be thankful for all things.” This includes bow ties, our body, and our daily breath. It’s easy to be grateful for the grand things in life, but to be appreciative for “all things” puts you in a powerful, harmonious place.”

Rev. Christian Sorenson, in an essay entitled “Looking Through the Eyes of Gratitude” in “Gratitude, A Way of Life” by Louise Hay and Friends

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 by Gary Spinell in IT WAS YOU, ALL ALONG

“Many people make no attempt to move forward, thinking, “But what if I try and fail?” or “What if I try and end up losing everything?” Remember, you create it all of it. When you believe you have the power to create your world, and that creative power cannot be turned on and off but something you do with every breath, you will embrace knowing you create EVERYTHING in your world.

Success is rarely, if ever, accomplished in one attempt. Have you ever watched an infant attempt to take his/her first steps? She will pull herself up against something, holding on tightly to the sofa or chair, only to fall back down again. Does the child give up after a few tries? Stop and strongly consider that if we all gave up after a few tries, none of us would be walking and running today! This is no small accomplishment for the baby. In her world learning to walk is similar to us to obtaining as large of goal we can imagine.

The infant is relentless in her attempts and does not quit. Instead the infant – even one so young – figures out what went wrong, makes adjustments and tries again. Nowhere in the infant’s head is the idea of failure. At no time does the child consider she will never walk, how she will be viewed if she cannot walk, and how she will view herself if she cannot walk. None of these thoughts enter her mind. Only adults have these thoughts when approaching new goals.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, September 24th, 2012 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

“Compassion is helping people understand what they are learning and empowering them to see the gifts in what they are experiencing. It is watching others go through their lessons the way they have chosen to experience them, knowing that though they may be suffering at the personality level, their suffering will help them give birth to a new, stronger self. Assist them by focusing on all the gifts their problems are offering them, such as teaching them about self-love, compassion, patience, inner strength, and other positive qualities.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

 Rainer Maria Rilke

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