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

Posted on December 26, 2011 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on December 23, 2011 by jmaz479

“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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“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

Posted on December 22, 2011 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on December 21, 2011 by jmaz479

“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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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, December 20th, 2011 by William L. Murtha in DYING FOR A CHANGE

Posted on December 20, 2011 by jmaz479

“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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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 Monday, December 19th, 2011 by Stephen Covey in THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

Posted on December 19, 2011 by jmaz479

“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

Posted on December 16, 2011 by jmaz479

“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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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,December 15th, 2011 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on December 15, 2011 by jmaz479

“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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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, December 13th, 2011 by Donald Altman in ONE MINUTE MINDFULNESS

Posted on December 13, 2011 by jmaz479

“How do you feel about the work that you do each day? Do you appreciate all that work provides you, or do you wish you were somewhere else doing something else? Do you find ways to appreciate others, or do you feel like an outsider who doesn’t fit in? Are you frustrated all day long because your efforts are underpaid and unacknowledged, or do you focus on giving the best of yourself?

I am not recommending that you resign yourself to a job in which you are unappreciated or overwhelmed. By all means, seek out something more meaningful. But in the meantime, experiment with adopting a grateful perspective to see how it changes your experience. This choice is within your control, and since you’re already at work, do you really want to add a burden of bitterness and suffering to your experience?

Donald Altman, in “One Minute Mindfulness”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 12th, 2011 by Deepak Chopra in THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS

Posted on December 12, 2011 by jmaz479

“When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or situation, but to your feelings about the person or situation. These are YOUR feelings, and your feelings are not someone else’s fault. When you recognize and understand this completely, you are ready to take responsibility for how you feel and to change it. And if you can accept things as they are, you are ready to take responsibility for your situation and for all the events you see as problems.”

Deepak Chopra, in “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 9th, 2011 by Dan Millman in WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR

Posted on December 9, 2011 by jmaz479

“As a child, everything you would see or experience was an enriching experience. Now, you’ve learned names and categories for everything. “That’s good, that’s bad, that’s a table, that’s a chair, that’s a dog, that’s a house,” etc. Now, you don’t take time to be truly aware of the things around you.

You now see everything through a veil of associations about things, projected over a direct, simple awareness. You’ve “seen it all before;” it’s like watching a movie for the twentieth time. You see only memories of things, so you become bored. Boredom, you see, is fundamental non-awareness of life; boredom, is awareness, trapped in the mind. You’ll have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.”

Dan Millman, in “Way of the Peaceful Warrior”

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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, December 8th, 2011 by Elaine Smitha in SCREWING MOTHER NATURE FOR PROFIT

Posted on December 8, 2011 by jmaz479

“If you hate your job, look for another. Life is too short to spend it being miserable, because your body and its health will suffer. Since cells eavesdrop on all your conversations, spoken aloud or not, it is easy to understand why unhappiness breeds sickness. You are taking care of more than one life within you. Trillions of cells depend on you, as if they were your children. In a way, they are your children, and as heirs to the title of lineage, the have a vested interest.

If you’re concerned about your health, identify your limits. If stress is the biggest block to your success, you may want to find interests with lower demands. Turn your ear to mellow instrumental music that plays well in the background and does not ask for your participation. It helps to reduce your stress in situations that by their very nature tax the system.”

Elaine Smitha, in “Screwing Mother Nature for Profit”

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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, December 7th, 2011 by Leo F. Buscaglia, in LOVING EACH OTHER

Posted on December 7, 2011 by jmaz479

“We need courage to meet what comes and know that whatever it is, it will not last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not pain, not joy, not even life. We need to accept the fact that the only way anything will ever be accomplished exactly as we want it, is if we do it. So if we choose to delegate, then it is natural that the results will vary in some way from what we intended and we must learn to accept it. If we have enough strength to take full responsibility for our failures as well as our successes, then our self-respect is nurtured and grows. When we join others for mutual strength and support we will have to develop the courage of coexistence.”

Leo F. Buscaglia, in “Loving Each Other”

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“The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.”

Charles Dubois

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 5th, 2011 by Baba Hari Dass

Posted on December 5, 2011 by jmaz479

“The essence of my teaching is to understand ourselves. We best go about this goal by first realizing that the outer world is nothing more than a projection of our inner lives. We create it by our egos, our attachments, and our desires. If something appears bad or wrong in the world, its cause is inside us, not in the outer world. If we can truly understand this cause and effect, then we can let go of egos, attachments, and desires, thus setting the stage to experience God’s love.”

Baba Hari Dass, in an essay entitled “God is Peace”

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

Seneca

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, December 2nd, 2011 by Dr. Joseph Murphy, in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Posted on December 2, 2011 by jmaz479

“Give no one in the world the power to deflect you from your goal, your aim in life, which is to express your hidden talents to the world, to serve humanity, and to reveal more and more of God’s wisdom, truth, and beauty to all people in the world. Remain true to your ideal. Know definitely and absolutely that whatever contributes to your peace, happiness, and fulfillment must of necessity bless all people who walk the earth. The harmony of the part is the harmony of the whole, for the whole is in the part, and the part is in the whole.”

Dr. Joseph Murphy, in “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”

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“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”

Henry David Thoreau, in “Walden”

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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