PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

Posted on May 10, 2011 by jmaz479

“In relationships, the primary motivator for manipulation is emotional insecurity. If I can get you to feel guilty, you will stay where I want you and do what I like. You will have sex with me, give me money, keep a roof over my head, or drive the kids where I tell you. If you feel bad enough about yourself, I will hold the power to make choices for you that serve me. We call this “love.” Or “marriage.” Yet love and marriage have nothing to do with  keeping each other small; their purpose is to bestow richer life, not imprisonment. It’s not love if it hurts.”

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

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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 9th, 2011 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

Posted on May 9, 2011 by jmaz479

“Don’t be a master of “If only” — if only I had more time, more money, a better opportunity, different parents, a more understanding spouse, no children. Life is tough. Be tougher. Reclaiming your will isn’t easy, but life is not about easy; it’s about finding inner strength you didn’t know you had. And remembering that you didn’t come here for “easy”.”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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“DO NOT SPEAK WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT, because it is done when you speak it – every idle word. The laws of the Universe do not sift through whether you mean what you say or intend it to happen.”

Jesus, channeled by Diandra, in “A New Day is Dawning”

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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 Friday, May 6th, 2011 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Posted on May 6, 2011 by jmaz479

“Check regularly on the negative suggestions that people make to you. You do not have to be influenced by them. All of us have suffered from it in our childhood and in our teens. If you look back, you can easily recall how parents, friends, relatives, teachers and associates contributed in a campaign or negative suggestions. Study the things said to you, and you will discover much of it was in the form of propaganda. The purpose of much of what was said was to control you or instill fear in you.”

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

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“If I want more peace in the world, then I must make peace with myself. If I want more trust in the world,I must learn to trust in myself. And if I want more love in the world, I must show more love to myself.”

Todd Rundgren, in “Change Myself” on the CD “2nd Wind”

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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 5th, 2011 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

Posted on May 5, 2011 by jmaz479

“The mind is an altar on which we place and worship thoughts and images. Whatever gets placed on this altar gets our attention and motivates us to act in service to the thought or image. Unless we know the difference between what is true and what is false, we will place our fears on this altar, will believe and act on them, and in doing so, we will manifest the very situations we are afraid of.

We are constantly bombarded with thoughts, images, sounds, subliminal communications, and energy waves of every kind. The ones we accept, believe, and act on function as magnets, drawing to us their vibrational equivalent in people, events, things, and circumstances. Our own stores of information, whether accurate or not, flood our conscious minds with thoughts and concepts unless we control our minds by keeping them peaceful, so that we can use them to receive the spiritual thoughts and guidance.. By placing the tool of the mind in its right location, in the spiritual zone, it becomes our good friend.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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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 4th, 2011 by Henry David Thoreau in WALDEN

Posted on May 4, 2011 by jmaz479

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the  influence of the slightest dew that falls on it, and did not spend out time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter, while it is already spring.”

Henry David Thoreau, in “Walden”

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“If you have to force someone or something into your life, that is not part of your highest good. What you fight to get, you fight to keep.”

Catherine Ponder, in “Open Your Mind to Prosperity”

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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 3rd, 2011 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

Posted on May 3, 2011 by jmaz479

“Never surrender in the face of challenges. Challenges are just the Universe’s way of making sure you earn, and deserve, the success you are striving for. If you work vigorously with persistence and dedication while connecting to the force that surrounds you, destiny will provide you with the attainment of your desire. You must keep moving and tackling the problems that are thrown your way and when the Universe is convinced you are ready for success, it will be given to you. This readiness assessed by the Universe has to do with learning the lessons you were intended to learn along the way.”

Richard A. Singer, in “Your Daily Walk With the Great Minds”

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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 Monday, May 2nd, 2011 by John Selby in EXPAND THIS MOMENT

Posted on May 2, 2011 by jmaz479

“Most people agree that our entire universe was at some point created by nothingness by an infinite intelligent power. Absolutely everything in this universe is God’s creation, and yet most of us spend a great deal of time judging parts of God’s creation as bad, wrong, ugly, negative, sinful, evil, and so on.

Every time we negatively judge a person or situation, we are in essence telling God, “Hey, you really messed up on this one. This particular part of your creation sucks.”

What a thing to say to our Creator. What amazing gall our egos have, to stand in judgment of God’s creation. From my perspective, to condemn anything in this universe seems to be, at the very least, highly presumptuous.”

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 Friday, April 29th, 2011 by by Margaret Olivia Wolfson in THE MOST AMAZING DAY excerpted from GRATITUDE: A WAY OF LIFE

Posted on April 29, 2011 by jmaz479

“Feeling and expressing gratitude for the good we have in our lives doesn’t give us permission to passively accept the aspects of our lives that are not working. However, as we labor to spin the straw of lack into gold, we must focus on our wealth, not our poverty. And while we must consciously make an effort not  to push away or avoid our problems, it is imperative that we simultaneously find things to praise. Complaining only focuses our mind’s attention on what is missing, and what we mentally focus on gradually take shape in the outer world.”

Margaret Olivia Wolfson, in “The Most Amazing Day” excerpted from “Gratitude: A Way of Life”

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“Cars and gold bars and chains and diamond rings, these are the symbols, we want the real things. Peace in the soul and a natural insight, things that please the mind and make the body feel right.”

Todd Rundgren, from the CD, “No World Order”

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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, April 28th, 2011 by Megan Don in MEDITATIONS WITH TERESA OF AVILA

Posted on April 28, 2011 by jmaz479

“We are called to the ever-present and ongoing journey of surrendering ourselves to the divine will. Through this continual act of surrender we come to find our essential nature and thus our true freedom. Even though at times we may find ourselves dying a painful death to our old concept of self, we will discover great treasures in giving ourselves over to the Beloved’s desire.”

Megan Don, in “Meditations with Teresa of Avila”

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“Patterns in life are not to be set, and they are not to be handed down from generation to generation. You cannot go back and change the past. You have to let go of it. As you let go of your attachment to the past, you are letting go of the hurt. You are letting go of your reaction to it. You can’t rewrite the script. You can, however, rewrite its power over you. You can rewrite your reaction to it, not by dint of will, but by realization. Those who may have hurt you are not holding on to their dominion over you now. You are holding on to their dominion over you now. You came out of it. You live now. You are no longer the helpless child. Whatever disasters befell you in the past, they are present only at your say-so.”

Heavenletter #3806 from Heavenletters.org

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, April 26th, 2011 by Sanaya Roman in PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

Posted on April 26, 2011 by jmaz479

“When you feel depreciated or drained by a stranger for no apparent reason, you are suffering from what has been called a “psychic whack.” These connections are messages from the universe telling you to pay attention to what you are doing to yourself, to look at ways you may be giving away your energy to those who cannot receive it. I call them reminders.

The minute you find yourself being whacked or depreciated, by someone you will probably not see again, or only know as a distant contact, look more closely at the relationships you have with friends and loved ones. You may be depreciating yourself in some way. If the universe cannot reach you with its messages about those close relationships, it will send a stranger to you to catch your attention. It is only a reminder that there is some area in your life in which you are undervaluing yourself. Thank the person for that reminder, and then begin to look more closely at your relationships. Ask, “Where am I giving out my energy and not having it returned?”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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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, April 25th, 2011 by Deepak Chopra, in THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS

Posted on April 25, 2011 by jmaz479

“The word affluence comes from the root word, “affluere,” which means “to flow to.” The word affluence means “to flow in abundance.” Money is really a symbol of the life energy we exchange and the life energy we use as a result of the service we provide to the universe. Another word for money is “currency,” which also reflects the flowing nature of energy. The word currency comes from the Latin word “currrere” which means “to run” or to flow.

Therefore, if we stop the circulation of money – if our only intention is to hold on to our money and hoard it – since it is life energy, we will stop its circulation back into our lives as well. In order to keep that energy coming to us, we have to keep the energy circulating. Like a river, money must keep flowing, otherwise it begins to stagnate, to clog, to suffocate and strangle its very own life force. Circulation keeps it alive and vital.”

Deepak Chopra in “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”

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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 Friday, April 22nd, 2011 by James Redfield in THE CELESTINE PROPHECY

Posted on April 22, 2011 by jmaz479

“We are not merely the physical creation of our parents; we are also the spiritual creation. You were born to these two people and their lives had an irrevocable effect on who you are. To discover your real self, you must admit that the real you began in a position between their truths. That’s why you were born there: to take a higher perspective on what they stood for. Your path is about discovering a truth that is a higher synthesis of what these two people believed.”

James Redfield, in “The Celestine Prophecy”

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“Days turn to minutes and minutes to memories, as life sweeps away the dreams that we have planned. But you are young, and you are the future. So suck it up, tough it out, and be the best you can.”

John Mellencamp, in the song “Minutes to Memories”

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, April 21st, 2011 by Sara Avant Stover THE WAY OF THE HAPPY WOMAN

Posted on April 21, 2011 by jmaz479

“Silence is the container out of which your intuition can reveal itself. When your mind’s racing, when the music is blaring, or when a garbage truck is barreling down the street, it’s very hard to hear the subtle promptings of your inner wisdom. In a world where each moment can easily be filled with making phone calls, checking email, or sending text messages, short periods and, eventually, longer stretches of silence are imperative for cultivating a rich inner world…Silence recharges your batteries by stripping away the excess sensory stimulation from the outside world. It provides a container in which you can hear the voice of your soul. It’s the medicine that most of the world needs right now – and fears.”

Sara Avant Stover, in “The Way of the Happy Woman”

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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, April 20th, 2011 by Doreen Virtue in UNCONDITIONAL GRATITUDE excerpted from GRATITUDE: A WAY OF LIFE

Posted on April 20, 2011 by jmaz479

“Every situation in which we find ourselves is an opportunity to look in the mirror and see a perfect reflection of our thought patterns. All our situations—whether we’d label them negative or positive—are products of our thoughts. It is impossible, in this orderly universe, to randomly attract a situation not suited to your thoughts. If we don’t care for the pattern of situations we are attracting, we can confront its source: our thought patterns. Spiritual growth comes from discovering thought patterns that don’t suit you, and then deciding to replace them with healthier thoughts. It’s a little like weeding a garden.”

Doreen Virtue, in “Unconditional Gratitude” excerpted from “Gratitude: A Way of Life”

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“The daily routine takes your soul, lost with out a trace. It holds you down and turns you ’round and puts you in your place. Another day, another dollar, another pretty face, another chance to lose yourself in the empty space. So hold on, hold on to your dreams, hold on, even though it seems everyone around you has their little schemes, listen to your heart, and hold on to your dreams.”

Triumph, in the song “Hold On” from the 1979 CD “Just a Game”

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, April 19th, 2011 by Jerry and Ester Hicks in GETTING INTO THE VORTEX

Posted on April 19, 2011 by jmaz479

“Sometimes, even though you are asking for a specific desire to be fulfilled, you are not actually moving toward the fulfillment of your desire, but instead you are actually moving further away from it. And even though you think you are asking for what you do want, you request is actually being made from your awareness of its absence.

You usually feel discouraged when a great deal of time passes while you “work” on your desire, but the results you are seeking do not materialize. We want to help you understand that you simply cannot get there from there: you cannot get to where you want to be when you are keenly aware of its absence.

Rather than saying, “I want more money,” say instead, “I want to feel my financial well-being.” You see, it is possible to feel an increased sense of financial well-being even before the money comes. But when you are focused on the desire for the money, and taking score of the absence of the money, you are Vibrationally defeating your own purpose.”

Esther & Jerry Hicks, in Getting Into the Vortex

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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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