PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 21st, 2011 by John Selby in EXPAND THIS MOMENT

Posted on July 21, 2011 by jmaz479

“Is there any reason not to honor and love yourself as you are right now? I remember sitting many times under the oak trees in Ojai, or in an auditorium in Europe or elsewhere, and listening to Krishnamurti as he guided us patiently through a clear logical analysis of why self-judgment is an entirely unnecessary function of the human mind, and why self-love is essential to spiritual health and fulfillment.

He would point out that many religious leaders had done their best to convince us that we are hopeless sinners who can be made whole only by the intercession of an external God or occult power. He would state emphatically that this particular “you’re born a hopeless sinner” belief was not a clear reflection of reality, and that accepting such a priestly dictum was spiritual suicide. Here is one of his more acerbic statements:

“Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick belief system.”

John Selby, in “Expand this Moment”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 by Dr. Christine Ranck & Christopher Lee Nutter in IGNITE THE GENIUS WITHIN

Posted on July 20, 2011 by jmaz479

“…Your obstacles are not the result of an external world keeping you down but are actually an expression of your own hidden desires. And if you make your obstacles, then you can also unmake them. This discovery makes it conceivable that nothing is fixed, but rather that everything, including you, exists in a state of possibility and therefore can change.

This transition from passivity into taking full responsibility and power over your life is an “ah-ha!” moment that means living in one world one minute and living in a totally different one the next. And that is moving without moving. In science, moving to a different plane of existence without physically moving is also called a “quantum leap,” and it is something that you have the power to do because quantum leaps can be entirely internal. All it takes to make a quantum leap is the application of your full awareness on what you desire, and then watching it unfold…as it always has.”

Dr. Christine Ranck and Christopher Lee Nutter, in “Ignite the Genius Within”

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, July 19, 2011 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

Posted on July 19, 2011 by jmaz479

“The absurd overvaluation of fame is just one of the many manifestations of egoic madness in our world. Some famous people fall in to the same error and identify with the collective fiction, the image people and the media have created of them, and they begin to actually see themselves as superior to ordinary mortals. As a result, they become more and more alienated from themselves and others, more and more unhappy, more and more dependent on their continuing popularity.Surrounded only people who feed their inflated self-image, they become incapable of genuine relationships.

Albert Einstein, who was admired as almost superhuman and whose fate it was to become one of the most famous people on the planet, never identified with the image the collective mind had created of him. He remained humble, egoless. In fact, he spoke of “a grotesque contradiction between what people consider to be my achievements and abilities and the reality of who I am and what I am capable of.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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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, July 18th, 2011 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Posted on July 18, 2011 by jmaz479

“Once we have achieved mastery of anything in our lives, we “own the level” attained by that achievement. What’s more, the skills used to attain that level are transferable. We see illustrations of this principle all of the time.

Look at the business section of your newspaper and you will often see that a president of a major corporation has transferred to another major corporation, whose product or service is totally different from the one he or she left. Once a person functions at a presidential level, he or she owns that level, and moves around in society at that level.

In our area of talent, we are all potential superstars. Since, along with every talent comes the tools to express it perfectly, we can become superstars when we are ready. Others will view us as superstars when we view ourselves that way.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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PONDER on THIS for Sunday, July 17th, 2011 by Lisette Larkins in DIFFICULT PEOPLE

Posted on July 17, 2011 by jmaz479

“Unhappiness or suffering of any degree, has become a normalized state of being when we think we don’t have what we want; however, few of us can tolerate the truth behind the actual cause of any kind of suffering…chronic and compulsive resistance to the impermanence of form – resisting what is.

This is truly the only “real” problem after all. Of course, there appear to be myriad difficulties that need our attention, or require a decision. Hardly anyone argues the fact that things seem to go wrong constantly. But do they really? What if the only thing that goes “wrong” is the suffering that we experience when we cannot accept what is? Ultimately, this is the only real “problem.” Resistance to what appears in the present moment is itself the “problem.” This is solved by the only possible solution: acceptance of the present moment as it is. Action or correction comes second. But first one must accept with a calm and quiet mind whatever is occurring. Out of this quiet state, right timing is correctly recognized and right action is thus borne.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 15th, 2011 by George Bernard Shaw

Posted on July 15, 2011 by jmaz479

“This is the true joy in life: The being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to make you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die – for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I have go hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handling it on to future generations.”

George Bernard Shaw

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“Hey politician, I don’t believe a word you say, almighty media, who’s truth do you sell today, watchdog of justice, who keeps their eye on you?”

Triumph, from the title cut on the 1979 CD “Just a Game”

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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, July 14th, 2011 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in GETTING INTO THE VORTEX

Posted on July 14, 2011 by jmaz479

“The current opinion that others hold regarding you has far more to do with how they are feeling (whether they are in alignment with their own Source, and whether they are in or out of their Vortex at the time) than it has to do with you or your behavior. There is perhaps no greater waste of time and effort than that of trying to influence the way other people see you, because what they see has very little to do with their object of attention and everything to do with the vantage point from which they are looking. How others feel about you is really about their relationship with their own Vortex.

Since their good feeling is about their relationship with their Inner Being, or about being inside their Vortex, then your best plan of helping them to feel better is always to encourage or influence them into their Vortex. But you can only effectively do that when you are inside your own Vortex and in alignment with your own Inner Being.”

Esther and Jerry Hicks, in “Getting into the Vortex”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION

Posted on July 13, 2011 by jmaz479

“We are not to blame for the way our lives are unfolding. Blaming ourselves for our present reality is like blaming a child for being ten years old instead of twenty or thirty. We are evolving in a natural way. We’ve done the best we knew how up until now. That is one of the ironic things about life, that from moment to moment we have only limited knowledge about our lives, and we can only make choices and decisions based on what we know. To ask more than that of any human being is as futile and unreasonable as asking a six-month old child to explain what she wants instead of crying. Blaming is a static state, one of standing in place and not moving on, while responsibility – the ability to respond – is dynamic, the very essence of forward movement.

Shakti Gawain, in “The Path of Transformation”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 12, by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE

Posted on July 12, 2011 by jmaz479

“There is nothing to fear anymore; we don’t have to be afraid to die. There is only one force that exists, and when we die, everybody is going back to the same place. Even if we don’t want to, even if we resist, we will return to that place because there is no other place to go. This is the greatest news for everybody. There’s no need to be afraid that we will be condemned when we die. In the moment of our death, I am going back to God, you are going back to God, everybody is going back to God, and that’s it. And it’s not about being good enough for God. God doesn’t care if we are good enough. God just loves us.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, in “The Voice of Knowledge”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 11th, 2011 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on July 10, 2011 by jmaz479

“Be aware of your dialogue. It seems obvious, but most are not really aware of how self-destructive their dialogue is. Negative people don’t see themselves that way. They don’t see how negativity is changing their external reality to fit their mind-set and thus destroying the quality of their life. Listen to your dialogue and watch your thoughts. See how much of it is bitching and moaning and expressing weakness, and how much of it has the God Force within it, expressing hope, gratitude, love and well-being. Negativity kills you, never forget that. It’s a weed that eventually chokes you to death.”

    Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 8th, 2011 by Confucius

Posted on July 8, 2011 by jmaz479

“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

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“Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersaults.”

Henry David Thoreau, in “Walden”

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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, July 7th, 2011 by Matthew Fox in CHRISTIAN MYSTICS

Posted on July 7, 2011 by jmaz479

“Life is a series of letting-go moments: from when we leave the womb – letting to of nine months in our mother’s belly – to the hour of our death and our final leave-taking. Every new beginning involves a letting go: when we go to our first day of school, when we graduate from high school, when we embark on a career or relationship, when we get married and leave single life and other romantic relationships behind, when we become parents. Since life is about letting go, it’s good to develop the habit now with a smile on our faces!”

Matthew Fox, in Christian Mystics

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 by Deepak Chopra in THE WAY OF THE WIZARD

Posted on July 6, 2011 by jmaz479

“Struggle, worry, planning and controlling runs against the grain of life. Life compresses chaos and orderliness together. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be in the flow of life, you can’t struggle against it at the same time. Therefore, the quester after perfection accepts that he is always going to be uncertain, that she is always going to feel off balance.

Despite the fact that your ego hates unpredictability, the truth is that you have benefited from it again and again. Think for a moment about the unexpected opportunities that have come your way, offers of help you never anticipated, sudden brainstorms and inspirations, impulsive decisions to move or talk to a stranger that opened new horizons. This is the natural way to live.”

Deepak Chopra, in “The Way of the Wizard”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

Posted on July 5, 2011 by jmaz479

“This is your life, and it’s been waiting for you to discover it! Up until now you may have been thinking that life is hard and a struggle, and so by the law of attraction you will have experienced life as hard and a struggle. Begin right now to shout to the universe, “Life is easy! Life is so good! All good things come to me.”

There is a deep truth deep inside you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that Truth is this: you deserve all goo things life has to offer. You know that inherently, because you feel awful when you experiencing the lack of good things. All good things are your birthright! You are the creator of you, and the law of attraction is your magnificent tool to create whatever you want in your life. Welcome to the magic of life, and the magnificence of You!”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 4th, 2011 by Louise Hay in YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE

Posted on July 4, 2011 by jmaz479

Often what we think of as the things “wrong” with us are only expressions of our own individuality. This is our uniqueness and what is special about us. Nature never repeats itself. Since time began on this planet, there have never been two snowflakes alike not two raindrops the same. And every daisy is different from every other daisy. Our fingerprints are different, and we are different. We are meant to be different. When we can accept this, then there is no competition and no comparison.To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who WE ARE.”

Louise Hay, in “You Can Heal Your Life”

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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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