BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 4th, 2011 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

“One way you can tell the difference between the messages from your Higher Self and the messages from your intellect is to note if there is any fearful thought behind the message. Messages from your intellect are often based on thoughts of scarcity, guilt, or a need to protect yourself from some imagined threat. If you are asking for guidance and want answers, do not pay attention to answers you receive that are based on fear, for they are not from your Higher Self.

Higher Self guidance is often subtle and quiet, and is frequently the message that follows the first one you hear. Your intellect may quickly jump in with answers, so when you are reflecting on what action to take, the first or loudest answer you receive may not come from your Higher Self. To receive messages from your Higher Self, get silent, and wait until you sense an answer that is reassuring and loving.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth, Being Your Higher Self”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

“Every life has a rhythm to it. The important thing to remember is that creating an interchange between the coming and going, the rising and falling, the peaks and valleys, is what balance is all about. Your life may appear to be out of balance when in fact it could that the rhythm of life is changing, and you are right where you are supposed to be. You are learning what you are supposed to learn, and the scales of balance are simply adjusting themselves in your favor.

Every event in your life, every situation and challenge, serves a purpose – not to knock you off balance, but rather to help you learn how to improve it. And remember that when you do fall down – and all of us do – make sure that you have stopped your descent before you attempt your ascent. How do you know when you are ready to get back up? That’s easy: you are no longer focused on the going down, but on the getting up.”

John St. Augustine, in “Living an Uncommon Life”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 2nd 2012 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK 3

“Keep in mind that what you are looking at, you are not really “seeing.” Your brain is not the source of your intelligence. It is simply a data processor. It takes in data through receptors called your senses. It interprets this energy in formation according to its previous data on the subject. It tells you what it perceives, not what really is. Based on these perceptions, you think you know the truth about something, when, actually, you do not know the half of it. In reality, you are creating the truth that YOU know.”

Neale Donald Walsch in “Conversations with God, Book 3”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 30th, 2011 by Shakti Gawain in CREATIVE VISUALIZATION

“We each have an infinite supply of love and happiness within us. We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others – not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it feels really good! Once we tune into it we just naturally want to share it because that is the essential nature of love, and we are all loving beings.”

Shakti Gawain, in “Creative Visualization”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 29th, 2011 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

“All our dreams, goals, and activities have a place in the basket of our grand purpose. Challenges, failures, successes, blessings, and difficulties – all contribute to our attaining this higher purpose, because we take whatever lessons come to us and apply them, instead of allowing them to discourage or defeat us. With a grand purpose, we welcome each valuable lesson as a missing piece we needed in order to succeed at the next step.

Even a mistake of the sort that previously could have destroyed us is no longer a failure but a blessing. A grand purpose worthy of us eliminates obstacles, such as the glass ceiling that may have artificially kept us down, and it exponentially expands our possibilities for expressing the genius in the form of potential that lies within us.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

“Purity is staying inside your energy, conserving it and guarding it. You’re not going to trash your energy by suddenly eating a whole bunch of junk, by going out for a week or two drinking yourself stupid, or by getting so stoned you can’t operate. You’re not going to take your energy into places where it will be trashed. You’re not going to trash your energy by fighting with people. If a confrontation looks like it’s developing, start to walk away. There isn’t a fight worth having.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 by Paul Ferrini in THE SILENCE OF THE HEART

“Most of you are in some kind of denial. That is probably because you have hardly touched your pain. It is too scary to do so. You would rather pretend to be spiritual than admit that you are having a really rough time. You don’t want people to see your dirty laundry: your judgments, your yearnings…It is far easier for you to let people see the pasteboard mask than the contorted face behind it. You are proud of the spiritual adult, but you are still ashamed of the wounded child. The worst thing about denial is that it creates a culture of pretense and shame.”

Paul Ferrini in, “The Silence Of The Heart”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday December 26th, 2011 by Joseph Campbell in REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF LIVING BY DIANE K. OSBON

“Get pressure ideas out of your system, and then you can find, like a ball on a roulette wheel, where you are going to land. The roulette ball doesn’t say, “Well, people will think better of me over here than over there.” Take what comes and be where you like. What counts is being where you feel you’re in YOUR place. What people think of you is THEIR problem.”

Joseph Campbell, in “Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion” by Diane K. Osbon

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday December 23rd, 2011 by Marlo Morgan in MUTANT MESSAGES DOWN UNDER

“All humans are spirits only visiting this world. All spirits are forever beings. All encounters with other people are experiences, and all experiences are forever connections. If you walk away with bad feelings in your heart for another person and that circle is not closed, it will repeated later in your life. You will not suffer once but over and over until you learn. It is good to observe, to learn, and become wiser from what has happened. It is good to give thanks, as you say, to bless it, and walk away in peace.”

Marlo Morgan, in “Mutant Messages Down Under”

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BEST of Bonus PONDER on THIS

“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”

Cree Indian Prophecy

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

“Wallace Wattles shares a wonderful tip about eating in one of his books. He recommends that when you eat, make sure you are entirely focused on the experience of chewing the food. Keep your mind present and experience the sensation of eating food, and do not allow your mind to drift to other things. Be present in your body and enjoy all the sensations of chewing the food in your mouth and swallowing it.

Try it the next time you are eating. When you are completely present as you eat, the flavor of the food is so intense and magnificent; when you let your mind drift, the flavor virtually disappears. I am convinced that if we can eat our food in the present, entirely focused on the pleasurable experience of eating, the food is assimilated into our bodies perfectly, and the result in our bodies must be perfection.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK 2

“All events, all experiences, have as their purpose the creating of OPPORTUNITY. Events and experiences are Opportunities. Nothing more, nothing less.

It would be a mistake to judge them as “works of the devil,” “punishments from God,” “rewards from Heaven,” or anything in between. They are simply Events and Experiences – things that happen. It is what we THINK of them, DO about them, BE in response to them, that gives them meaning.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Conversations with God Book 2”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 by William L. Murtha in DYING FOR A CHANGE

“You cannot know yourself in the absence of all other human beings. You cannot find out who you are if you do not first discover who you are not. All relationships demonstrate this by acting as your mirrors. All people coming into your life help bring you reflections. They enable you to discover those parts of self that are obscured. This process ultimately reveals the essence of your own soul. You are on a voyage of self-discovery on the choppy ocean of life. And each relationship you magnetize to you is another port of call.

Only by observing the behaviors and emotions of others around you can you then contextualize your own behaviors and emotions. Only by witnessing what you are not can you then decipher that which you are.””

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 19th, 2011 by Stephen Covey in THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

“If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work our basic paradigms.

In the words of Thoreau, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.”

Stephen Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 16th, 2011 by Caroline Myss in ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT

“We are simultaneously matter and spirit. In order to understand ourselves and be healthy in both body and spirit, we have to understand how matter and spirit interact, what draws the spirit or life-force out of our bodies, and how we can retrieve our spirits from the false gods of fear, anger, and attachments to the past.

Every attachment we hold on to out of fear commands a circuit of our spirit to leave our energy field and, to use a biblical phrase, ‘breathe life onto earth’ – earth that costs us health. What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. The power that fuels our bodies, our minds, and our hearts does not originate in our DNA. Rather, it has roots in Divinity itself. The truth is as simple and eternal as that.”

Caroline Myss, in “Anatomy of the Spirit”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday,December 15th, 2011 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“The reality is that all individuals are simply doing the best they know how to do at any particular time, given the level of their awareness of spiritual principles. People are usually so focused on their own life that they are, for the most part, unaware of what anyone else is experiencing at the time. For this reason, it is vital that you learn not to take things personally, for other people live in their own dream, in their own mind, and therefore are in a completely different world than the one in which you live.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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