PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 by Megan Don in MEDITATIONS WITH TERESA OF AVILA

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“The truth of humility is found in our understanding and acknowledgment of the supreme reality of our existence, that is, that we are all manifestations of the Beloved. We are the sparks of the divine flame and love, created in the purity of divine being. To be humble means to know and honor our origins. It also means to remember, at all times, that is through the very love of the Beloved that we live and breathe and journey through this life. We are being asked to live these supreme and everlasting truths, said Teresa, even though we know so little about this majestic sovereignty of the divine being.”

Megan Don, in “Meditations with Teresa of Avila”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 30th, 2011 by Dan Millman in THE LAWS OF SPIRIT

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“Faith means living with uncertainty, feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. There is no absolute security except in absolute faith. This doesn’t mean that all circumstances will go your way, or that Divine justice is operating every time you injure or heal yourself. All sorts of events, both beautiful and terrible, can happen in this world. Our small mind cannot always see the bigger picture or know what is for our highest good. So despite the confusion and insecurity of life, when you can learn to live on faith, trusting that Spirit/God is working according to a higher will beyond the reach of your mind, you’ll see Spirit/God operating everywhere, in everyone, and everything.”

Dan Millman, in “The Laws of Spirit”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 27th, 2011 by Leonardo DaVinci

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“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation. For when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment. Go some distance away, because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.”

Leonardo DaVinci

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Plato

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, May 26th, 2011 by Ping Li in AWAKENING

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“Each present moment you send out a vibration that tells the universe who you think you are, what you can have and what you believe your life should be like. What you do, think and choose is a reflection of who you believe you are, your value and perception of life at that moment, which in turn creates the reality to match these thoughts, beliefs, choices and feelings. Your present physical body language tells the world who you are physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Your present moment is the perfect opportunity to feel as if you are living your dream now.

Ask your all-wise soul and higher self to show you how you would feel this moment if you had all the confidence in the world to live your dream. How are you standing if you are solidly grounded in the earth? How are you sitting if you have unshakable strength? What are your thoughts as a person with great wisdom, clarity and inner knowing? What do you say as a person with great compassion and understanding? Signal the infinite field of intelligence to arrange the details for you and assist you in creating a reality that is in harmony with your vibrational energy in this very moment.”

Ping Li, in “Awakening”

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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, May 25th, 2011 by Dan Millman in WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR

Posted on May 25, 2011 by jmaz479

“Emotions are a natural human capacity, a form of expression. Sometimes it’s appropriate to express fear, sorrow, or anger – but the energy should be directed completely outward, not held in. The expression of emotions should be complete and powerful, then should vanish without a trace. The way to control your emotions, then, is to let them flow and let them go.

When a baby is upset it expresses itself in banshee wails – pure crying. It doesn’t ponder about whether it should be crying. If the baby is angry, it very definitely lets you know. But this too, it lets go of very quickly’ can you imagine a baby’s feeling guilty about its anger? Babies let it flow and let it go. They express themselves fully and then shut up. Infants are fine teachers, and they demonstrate the right use of energy.”

Dan Millman, in “Way of the Peaceful Warrior”

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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

Posted on May 24, 2011 by jmaz479

“Enlightenment through suffering – the way of the cross – means to be forced into the kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming. You finally surrender because you can’t stand the pain anymore, but the pain could go on for a long time until this happens.

Enlightenment consciously means chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means saying yes to what is. You then don’t need pain anymore. How much more time do you think you will need before you are able to say “I will create no more pain, no more suffering?” How much more pain do you need before you can make that choice?”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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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, May 23rd, 2011 by James Eubanks in THE AWESOME DESIGN OF LIFE excerpted from GRATITUDE: A WAY OF LIFE

Posted on May 23, 2011 by jmaz479

“If you are not yet someone who on a daily basis practices gratitude, like an unending prayer or background music for your life, I invite you to consider the possibility of doing so, beginning now. Come up to the higher room. Gratitude requires responsibility. See and begin to own your valuable contributions and talents. Acknowledge the people in your life: those you love, and those you may not love. In a true sense, they are all the same. They are your teachers. Be grateful for them. While doing so, realize how powerful you are, how moving your life is, and to what extent you are blessed in just being here. And then, watch what happens.”

James Eubanks, in “The Awesome Design of Life” excerpted from “Gratitude: A Way of Life”

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“Every time you close your eyes, you’ve been cut down to size, ’cause you’re stuck with yourself, ain’t nobody else in there to compare yourself to. It’s just you, and then you ask yourself, “What’s it all about?” So you try and figure it out, and that’s when you’ll be tempted to believe foolish things, and deceive yourself by lettin’ someone else do your thinking for you when they haven’t got a clue.”

Todd Rundgren, in the title cut from the CD “The Individualist”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 20th, 2011 by The Dalai Lama

Posted on May 20, 2011 by jmaz479

“The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion  No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha, or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person. When you are motivated by kindness, it doesn’t matter whether you are a practitioner, a lawyer, a politician, an administrator, a worker, or an engineer: whatever your profession or field, deep down you are a kind person.”

The Dalai Lama

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“When we put up with any situation that we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it because we want the lesson that only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom itself.”

  Richard Bach, in “Running From Safety”

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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, May 19th, 2011 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on May 19, 2011 by jmaz479

“Life is not fair…There are going to be times that test every fiber of your being. People of character are fully aware that they may not be able to control the events of their lives, but they are in charge of their response to those events. Life is set up as a growing process. Every new season brings growth, and humans are not outside the cycle of change (even though we would like to think so). Instead of whining when something comes your way that doesn’t fit your idea of how things should be (of course, a little pressure release is allowed), face it head-on, stare it down, and see it for what it is. Character is built on the hard times of life, not the easy ones, so ducking punches actually can make you weaker, not stronger.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by Gary Spinell in IT WAS YOU, ALL ALONG

Posted on May 18, 2011 by jmaz479

“We have been taught that there is only so much to go around for everyone, whether it is love, money, or success. Some religions teach that God has reasons that some of us fail. They teach that if we do not adhere to God’s rules then we suffer the consequences. When you are all you can be you have the ability to give more of yourself and what you have to others, thereby creating an even more wonderful Universe.

Some religions, or religious leaders attempt to show they are better than people who attend their service to keep the worshippers coming back to donate more money, because some leaders fear once you understand you create your own world and you can find your connection to God yourself and achieve success, you might no longer need these religious leaders. Their shortsightedness makes us all pay in the long run.

God wants everyone to succeed, learn and grow. There is no value for God if you are not being successful and achieving your dreams and heart’s desires. To believe that being poor but having a good heart is somehow going to make us more worthy or deserving is a myth. There is great value – for God and all of us – in being all we can be, in having all God can provide, if we are willing to accept it. If God is “saddened” by anything, it is each of us not being all we can be. The only true “sin” is not being the best we can be.”

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

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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, May 17th, 2011 by John Selby in EXPAND THIS MOMENT

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“Did you ever wonder why so many good people in the world yearn to improve nasty, unfair situations in the world, but seem to be so ineffective in generating positive change? The reason is that they are fighting reality, rather than participating in it. When I suggest that you accept the world just as it is in order to change it, I’m pointing out that you cannot change a situation unless you fully accept the fact that, right now, that situation exists exactly as it is. You cannot change this present moment. You can only embrace it. And then in the next moment, respond.”

John Selby, in “Expand This Moment”

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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, May 16th, 2011 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH, BEING YOUR HIGHER SELF

Posted on May 15, 2011 by jmaz479

“Trust that what other people do will in some way be for your higher good, even if you don’t understand why. No matter what happens, tell yourself the universe is perfect, and everything that happens is perfect. If something you were hoping for doesn’t happen, know that something even better will.”

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

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“If you have a lot of heavy emotions riding on whether you attain your goal (that is, if you will be upset if you don’t get it) you will tend to work against yourself. In your fear of not getting what you want, you may actually be energizing the idea of not getting it as much or more as you are energizing the goal itself.”

Shakti Gawain, in “Creative Visualization”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 13th, 2011 by Louise Hay in YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE

Posted on May 13, 2011 by jmaz479

“We are all victims of victims, and they could not possibly have taught us anything they did not know. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children. If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who ‘did all that stuff to you’ were just as frightened and scared as you are.”

Louise Hay, in “You Can Heal Your Life”

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“It is good to listen. If you learn to listen carefully, without always passing judgment, you will enter into the very heart of the creature to whom you give attention. You will begin to grow the flowers of your soul. Then all of nature will whisper to you her secrets.”

E.J. Michael, in “Queen of the Sun”

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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, May 12th, 2011 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

Posted on May 12, 2011 by jmaz479

“The most important thing to remember as you practice mental picturing for the purposes of manifesting your desires is that humans never create anything. Our function is not to create, but to attract combine and distribute what already exists. Creations are really new combinations of already existing materials.

I am not speaking here of creating energy, but of transforming one form of energy into another. Our creative power is the ability to convert the energy of our thoughts into a newly materialized form. Manifestation is the result.

There is one indispensable condition for the manifestation of that picture into the visible and concrete world. The world of spirit is immune to the concept of time and space. Therefore, the picture must either be formed here and now or not at all. Once you have this awareness you will understand the necessity of picturing the fulfillment of your desire as if it is already accomplished on the spiritual plane.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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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, May 11th, 2011 by Lily Fairchilde in SONG OF THE PHOENIX

Posted on May 11, 2011 by jmaz479

“Hatred, vengeance, guilt, and self-condemnation are toxic emotions which feed on the inability to forgive. They weaken the body, mind and soul. Love strengthens; it heals and makes you whole. To prove this to yourself, take a moment to go within. Think of someone, or some situation, that you have not been able or willing to forgive. Feel the heaviness of this, the contracted tension, the darkness. Now, move your focus to someone or something you feel great love for. Allow yourself to experience the warmth, the elation, the calm peace you find there. If you had a choice – and you do – which place would you rather be in?”

Lily Fairchilde, in “Song of the Phoenix”

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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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