BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 by David Simon in THE TEN COMMITMENTS

Posted on February 1, 2011 by jmaz479

“Are there times when withholding or distorting the truth is evolutionary? Every person at some time has withheld the truth, distorted the truth or consciously lied. There are little lies and big lies. In the embracing the uncertainty of truth, there will be situations when not telling the truth may be the best response at that time.

If a friend has confided in you something about which they feel vulnerable, it may be an expression of your higher self not to respond honestly when interrogated by the town gossip. If your spouse asks you how they look in a certain piece of clothing, being completely forthright with your opinion may not always serve the greater good. Not telling the truth may be the most evolutionary option when the truth can cause tremendous harm to others. If a tyrant wants information about the location of an intended innocent victim, withholding that truth is the right thing to do.

A spiritual warrior is skilled in timing and finesse. The commitment to truth is unwavering; knowing when to conceal and when to reveal it is key to a successful life.”

David Simon, in “The Ten Commitments”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 31st, 2011 by William L. Murtha in DYING FOR A CHANGE

Posted on January 31, 2011 by jmaz479

Will Murtha: So there is no God out there because it is inside of us. It is part of everything. All that we see around us is an essence of God, manifesting in a physical form.

Voice of Higher Presence:Yes, in every physical and nonphysical form that you can wrap your understanding around. But, please, do not take my word for it. See it, and then feel it for yourself. Then a theory will become knowing. And when you truly know something deep in your heart, it will override any construct of the mind.

The divine is in the stranger that you come across in the street. It is in the wild animal of the forest. And it is present in the water that you drink, the food that you devour. There is no place or thing that is not the divine. God, spirit, energy are all of it. We are all a fragment of God, and yet we are all of God. There is no part of this delicious cake that you are not, my friend. We belong to all of it because we are all of it. Can you not see the implications of this truth?”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 28th, 2011 by Chérie Carter-Scott in IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES

Posted on January 28, 2011 by jmaz479

“You will continually attract the same lesson in your life. You will also draw to you teachers to teach you that lesson until you get it right. The only way you can free yourself of difficult patterns and issues you tend to repeat is by shifting your perspective so that you can recognize the patterns and learn the lessons that they offer. You may try to avoid the situations, but they will eventually catch up with you.

To face these challenges means you need to accept the fact that something within you keeps drawing you to the same kind of person or issue, painful though that situation or relationship may be. In the words of Carl Jung, “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” And come to consciousness you must if you are ever to stop repeating the same lessons and be able to move on to new ones.”

Chérie Carter-Scott in, “If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 27th, 2011 by Karol K. Truman, in HEALING FEELINGS FROM YOUR HEART

Posted on January 27, 2011 by jmaz479

“Healthy self-esteem is refreshing, exhilarating and exciting! People with this esteem are usually genuine and caring. We feel comfortable in their presence and enjoy being around them. There usually is no pretense nor need to prove or put on airs. There is no ‘mask’ with those of noble self-esteem. As you incorporate these favorable characteristics, you can honestly say you are beginning to live life to its fullest.

These positive attributes are not present when one’s actions come from undue pride, lofty airs, emotional distance or reserve, or contempt for others. Negative qualities of pride are usually an overcompensation for feelings of insecurity and fear. They are the ego’s attempt to make the individual feel adequate and safe. Ultimately, however, they disable the individual by keeping him/her from experiencing who they are.

A prideful individual has forgotten that real security resides in knowing that, ultimately, God is the one in charge.”

Karol K. Truman, in “Healing Feelings from Your Heart”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 by Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on January 26, 2011 by jmaz479

“When someone tells you how special you are, all that you can accurately say is: This person given his particular taste and needs, desires, appetites and projections has a special desire for me, but that says nothing about me as a person. Someone else will find me quite unspecial and that too says nothing about me as a person. So the moment you accept that compliment and you allow yourself to enjoy it, you will give control of yourself to that person. You will go to great lengths in order to continue to be special to this person.

You will be in constant fear lest he meets someone who will become special to him and thus you will be dislodged from the special position you occupy in his life…Then you can make things worse by beginning to search for other people who will tell you that you are special to them and you invest so much time and energy in making sure that they never lose this image they have of you. What a wearisome way to live! Suddenly fear comes into your life, fear that the image will be destroyed, and if what you seek is fearlessness and freedom, you must let go of this. How? By refusing to take anybody seriously when they tell you how special you are.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

Posted on January 25, 2011 by jmaz479

“What is the power of now?  None other than the power of our presence, your consciousness liberated from thought forms.

So deal with the past on the level of the present. The more attention you give to the past, the more you energize it, and the more likely you are to make a ‘self’ out of it. Don’t misunderstand: Attention is essential, but not to the past as past. Give attention to the present; give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. There’s the past in you. If you can be present enough to watch all those things, not critically or analytically but non-judgmentally, then you are dealing with the past and dissolving it through the power of your presence. You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 24th, 2011 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Posted on January 24, 2011 by jmaz479

“Your subconscious mind never grows old. It is timeless, ageless, and endless. It is a part of the universal mind of God which was never born, and it will never die. Fatigue and old age cannot be predicated on any spiritual quality or power. Patience, kindness, veracity, humility, good will, peace, harmony, and brotherly love are attributes and qualities which never grow old. If you continue to generate these qualities here on this plane of life, you will always remain young in spirit…

Wisdom is an awareness of the tremendous spiritual powers in your subconscious mind and the knowledge of how to apply these powers to lead a full and happy life. Get it out of your head once and for all that 65, 75, or 85 years of age is synonymous with the end for you or anybody else. It can be the beginning of a glorious, fruitful, active, and more productive life pattern, better than you have ever experienced. Believe this, expect this, and your subconscious will bring it to past.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 20th, 2011 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY

Posted on January 20, 2011 by jmaz479

“How do we break the grip of the ego?…Let’s watch our feelings of self-importance and not forget how dangerous a minefield arrogance, pride, and swagger can be. Also, a greater understanding that all good things are possible may depress us at first because such things are not happening in our lives. This could throw us into the victim role.

Victim can be an interesting character to play. Posture: sagging shoulders. Facial expression: grim. Voice: whiny. Words from script with camera close up: “I don’t deserve this; why can’t good things happen to me?’  Ego gets credit for fine direction. Whenever self-importance and depression weigh in, take control. Meditate on who and what you are and let the light dispel the shadows.”

John Randolph Price, in “Living a Life of Joy”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 by Paul Ferrini in THE SILENCE OF THE HEART

Posted on January 19, 2011 by jmaz479

“Hard as it is to believe, emotional safety is not to be founding most relationships. That is because most relationships are addictive and temporary. They end in mutual distrust and/or abandonment. Yet, when we “fall in love,” we have the expectation that they are offering us not only safety, but perpetual bliss. If there ever was a set-up in life, this would have to be it! What better way to punish yourself than to enter into one destructive relationship after another?

The question, of course, is how do we avoid this scenario of “falling in love” and betraying ourselves? The answer it not to refuse to fall in love or to isolate ourselves, but to “fall in love” consciously, or to simply “be” in love. To be in love is to be present with the other person through all of the ups and downs of experience…It means to go into relationship with open eyes, seeing all that unfolds. It means not seeing selectively. Not seeing just what you want to believe.”

  Paul Ferrini, in ‘The Silence of the Heart”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

Posted on January 18, 2011 by jmaz479

“If you are as God created you, then no mistakes you’ve ever made or anyone’s judgments or negative opinions about you can in any way determine who you are or change your value. In the Holy Instant, we can remember our divine essence and choose to express it. And whatever we express will be reflected back to us. The universe is always ready to give us new beginnings that reflect our innocence, but we are not always ready to receive them.

The sun can dawn, but we don’t see it if the drapes are closed. No matter how much God loves us, we don’t feel it if we don’t believe it. As long as we think that we are less than God’s perfect creation, then the experiences we attract to ourselves will be less than God’s perfect creation. As we believe, so shall it seem to be.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 17th, 2011 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

Posted on January 17, 2011 by jmaz479

“People unknowingly sabotage their own work when they withhold help or information from others or try to undermine them lest they become more successful or get more credit than “me.” Cooperation is alien to the ego, except when there is a secondary motive. The ego doesn’t know that the more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you.

When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe – in the form of people and circumstances – gives little or no help to you because you have cut yourself off from the whole. The ego’s unconscious core feeling of “not enough” causes it to react to someone else’s success as if that success had taken something away from “me.” It doesn’t know that your resentment of another person’s success curtails your own chances of success. In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 14th, 2011 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

Posted on January 14, 2011 by jmaz479

“Our culture gives a great deal of credence to the caricature of “starving artist” and even romanticizes it. Two attitudes reinforce this debilitating image: The first is that our left-brain dominant culture does not value artistic expression as much as technical savvy. People who program computers get paid a lot more than those who paint pictures that hang in their offices. Both are important. When money gets tight, arts programs are the first to be axed by the government, and arts proponents have to go begging to the private sector to survive…

The second reason the starving artist myth stays alive is that the artists buy into it. Young artists, writers, and actors believe they must live in a chilly basement, wear tattered thrift-shop clothing, purchase groceries with food stamps, drive a car made of more rust than metal, and hassle with their landlord every month over the late rent check. And so impoverishment rules, not because it has to be that way, but because expectation is nine-tenths of manifestation.”

Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks And What You Can Do About It”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 13th, 2011 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

Posted on January 13, 2011 by jmaz479

“Owning is an essential step in the process of healing and of creating a life you love. We can’t embrace that which we don’t own. If you want to manifest your full potential you have to reclaim the parts of yourself that you’ve denied, hidden, or given away to others.

If there is an aspect of ourselves that we don’t accept, we’ll continually attract people in our lives who act out that aspect. The universe will keep trying to show us who we really are and to help make us whole again. Most of us have buried these disowned aspects so deep we can’t see where we could possibly be a particular kind of person that we look at with distaste. However, if a particular type of person keeps showing up in your life, it’s for a reason.”

Debbie Ford, in “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT

Posted on January 12, 2011 by jmaz479

“Have you ever noticed that since you arrived in this world, you’ve always been delivering a message? Even before you were born, when you mother became aware that she was pregnant, your message was there. Your parents couldn’t hardly wait for your arrival, for the moment of your birth. They knew that a miracle was happening, and as soon as you were born you delivered the message right away with no words. They felt your presence. It was the birth of an angel, and the message was you.

You were the message, and you still are the message, but you’ve been distorted by the reflection of the other messengers. It’s not the messengers’ fault, it’s not your fault, and in fact it’s nobody’s fault. The distortion is perfect because only perfection exists, but then you grow up, you become aware, and you can choose to deliver a different message. You can choose to become a better reflection of life by changing the language you speak. You can change the way you deliver a message, the way you communicate with yourself and with other people.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

Posted on January 11, 2011 by jmaz479

“If you are rushing or hurrying, know that those thoughts and actions are based in fear (fear of being late) and you are ‘fixing up’ bad things ahead for you. As you continue to rush, you will attract one bad thing after another into your path. In addition to that, the law of attraction is “fixing up” more circumstances that will cause you to rush and hurry. You must stop and move yourself off that frequency. Take a few moments to shift yourself, if you don’t want to summon bad things to you.

Many people, particularly in Western societies, chase “time” and complain that they don’t have enough time. Well, as someone says that they don’t have enough time, so it must be by the law of attraction. If you have been chasing your tail with thoughts of not having enough time, from now on declare emphatically, “I have more than enough time,” and change your life.

You can also turn waiting into a powerful time to create your future life. Next time you are in a situation where you are waiting, seize that time and imagine having all the things you want. You do this anywhere, anytime. Turn every life situation into a positive one!”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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