BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

“Be emotionally supportive to your friends, loved ones, and clients, but stop when you start to feel drained. Some people will take as much time and energy as you are willing to give (like all of it). Be present and helpful, but not to the extent that your interaction undermines your life force.

Some people don’t even care who you are or if you are listening; they don’t even care if you are alive. They just want to talk, and another body in the room or on the other end of the telephone line makes them feel like they are accomplishing something. They are not. They are emotional necrophiliacs, and would probably get as much reward delivering their story to a corpse. If you listen long enough, you will become one. Help them and yourself by not feeding their addiction. Just love them and be where you are supposed to be. Sometimes the kindest gift you can offer to someone who needs to stand on their own feet is a kind refusal to play a crutch.”

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

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“BONUS” PONDER on THIS

“It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you. Nobody wants you to do what you want to do. They want you to go on their trip, but you can do what you want.”

Joseph Campbell

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 25th, 2010 by Connie Joy in TRAGEDY IN SEDONA

“Know your teacher. If they appear unapproachable, unwilling to let you get to know them well, then move on until you find one who will. At the same time, keep in mind the only teacher you really need now or ever is within you. “The Kingdom of heaven is within you,” Jesus admonished his disciples. Be your own guru; that may be the most powerful lesson you or I will ever learn from any teacher.”

Connie Joy, in “Tragedy in Sedona, My Life in James Arthur Ray’s Inner Circle”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 22nd, 2010 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

“Worry is like chewing gum – it’s something you do, but it really doesn’t get you anywhere. Worrying about your past mistakes and regrets blocks your ability to forgive and move forward. The human mind cannot consider two opposing thoughts at the same time. It does not know past from present or future; it only acts on what it sees. Take some time to make a list of you mistakes, screw-ups, lies, and sins – whatever vernacular works for you – big and small. Only you know what you need to “for-give” so you can “for-get.”

Just as there seems to be no order to miracles, there is no order to the things that can be forgiven. Getting right with yourself and “blessing the mess” you have created will help you see your journey in a new, more empowering light. Write it all down, then burn it, share it, or keep it for those days when you think forgiving yourself is out of reach. We have all made a mess of things at one time or another. That’s what mistakes are for – to learn how not to do something.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 21st, 2010 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

“Every relationship is a teaching-learning assignment. Anyone we are destined to meet, we will. We are drawn to each other for teaching and learning, as each of us is presented with the chance to learn the next lesson in the journey of our soul. Every encounter is a holy encounter if we use it to demonstrate love. And every encounter is a setup for possible pain if we’re not open to the opportunity to do that. Anyone we meet we were destined to meet, but what we do with the relationship is entirely up to us.

Sometimes someone is brought into our life to help us learn a lesson we’ve failed to learn before: to be accepting rather than controlling, to be approving instead of critical, or even to turn away from toxic behavior when before we would have made a beeline for it. It’s no accident that certain patterns plague us, year after year, until we finally heal them. There’s no point trying to go to Outer Mongolia to escape your issues; they will find you there because they live inside your head. The people you need will be brought to you; you will subconsciously attract them; there is no escaping the curriculum of the Holy Spirit.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 by Clare Cooper Marcus in IONA DREAMING

“For the individual ego, as for society, change is threatening; we like to believe we have everything neatly under control. In India, the Goddess life force appears in two contrasting forms: Kali and Durga. Kali is the frightening Goddess wit skulls around her neck and a bloody sword in her hand. Kali’s function is to crush the ego, the force us to let go of whatever we cling to. And when we do let go, Kali is transformed into Durga, the Great Mother, the radiant Goddess. Only then do we experience the serenity that accompanies the acknowledgment of impermanence, the calm that comes with letting go.”

Clare Cooper Marcus, in “Iona Dreaming The Healing Power of a Place”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in THE AMAZING POWER OF DELIBERATE INTENT

“When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way.

Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction. Just because you have picked up these thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and moods along your physical trail does not mean that you have to continue attracting in response to them. You have creative control of your own experience. And, by paying attention to your own Emotional Guidance System, you can change your point of attraction.

If there are things in your experience that you no longer wish to experience, your belief must change. If there are things that are not in your experience that you want to bring into your experience, your belief must change.

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different thoughts requires focus and practice. If you continue to focus as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe as you have been, then nothing in your experience will change.”

Esther and Jerry Hicks, in “Ask and It Is Given”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 15th, 2010 by Betsy Otter Thompson in WALKING THROUGH ILLUSION

“Why are people convinced that their beliefs are so important? Do they assume that those beliefs will get them into heaven? And if those beliefs aren’t making them happy now, why do they think they will sometime later? My beliefs have gone through several radical changes – from a complete and absolute faith in the Church, to agnosticism, to a belief that love is the only power worthy of recognition. And frankly, none of the above made a particle of difference in terms of how my life was going. Life went according to what I accorded others. And you know what? I strongly suspect that, when I leave here, future happiness will have the same criterion.”

Betsy Otter Thompson, in “Walking Through Illusion”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 14th, 2010 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

“Read the following without any attachment to making me wrong. Ready?

“Money will come to you in sufficient amount to take care of your needs only when you stop needing more of it. The more you give away without any expectations, the more you will receive back.” I know this is a radical notion, but it has worked for me. When I gave up my attachment to money, stopped putting a price tag on everything I encountered, and continued doing what I loved doing, I found money arriving in my life in unbelievably larger amounts.

Stop yourself from thinking about money a few moments at a time. Think instead of the exquisitely beautiful things in life that no amount of money could buy. Detach yourself from the need to acquire and hoard money. Give it away freely in whatever measure you find appropriate. Take the price tag off your life and all that you see and do. Enjoy things simply for the beauty they offer, rather than for the bargains they provide.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“It may seem like a waste of time to strive to see beneath the masks of our lives. We will die one day and then we will know what we really, so why not just live life? Well, there is living life, and then there is living life. The more masks you pull off, the closer to the truth you get; the more burdens you shed, the brighter the light gets. As you get closer to your original light, you get closer to your true power. Your true power is the power of creation. The mechanism we use to create is prayer, or mindful thought. As we shed our masks, we are able to access more and more of our abilities, courage, and all of the powers and gifts that are our birthright. We all have this power as our inheritance, and this power gives us the ability to experience anything we believe in.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

“A mind that adopts guilt becomes vulnerable, disempowered, and easily led. People who believe they owe a debt to a power stronger than themselves will do just about anything to placate that power and keep it at bay. Since the first guilt trip was laid and accepted, innumerable parents, husbands, wives, children, bosses, governments, cults, and middle school teachers have learned how to make others feel guilty so they can control them. But this has nothing to do with Original Sin, and everything to do with Original Dysfunction.

Some religions have mastered guilt to a finely-tuned science. Guilty people will pay lots of money to have their sins removed, stay in the grace of God, and avoid hell. What they don’t realize as they are writing checks to buy off Big Brother is that there is no hell worse than believing that an external force has power over you and can take away your good.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 11th, 2010 by William L. Murtha in DYING FOR A CHANGE

Will Murtha: Right, I get it. We are all creating, even if we don’t think we are creating.

Voice of Higher Presence: There, see, now you have it. You don’t realize that you are creating something because it’s not at the front of your mind. Most forms of creating are achieved in this way. Most of what we create in the world is actually done unconsciously, without us even being aware of what the consequences will be. If somebody shuts a door in your face without thinking, do you judge that person to be rude and obnoxious, or do you reach a more enlightened conclusion? Do you see that he or she is really unconscious and therefore unaware of the actions? Or do you criticize and condemn the person for the behavior?

Will Murtha: I get your point. People aren’t always necessarily rude on purpose. It may just be that they have something else on their minds.

Voice of Higher Presence: Very few people are rude and ignorant on purpose. I know this is hard to accept, especially if you are on the receiving end of a person’s ignorance. But look at the larger picture, and you will see that it is deep unconsciousness that creates what you may judge to be rude behavior. Many people have so many pressing issues and anxiety on their mind that they are often unconscious of what’s happening around them. You could also say that most accidents are created in the same way. They happen because a person’s mind is someplace else while the person’s body is in the here and now. And because the person is not fully concentrating on what he or she is doing, an accident occurs.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 8th, 2010 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

“Unconscious people – and many remain unconscious, trapped in their egos throughout their lives – will quickly tell you who they are: their name, their occupation, their personal history, the shape or state of their body, and whatever else they identify with. Others may appear to be more evolved because they think of themselves as an immortal soul or divine spirit. But do they really know themselves, or have they just added some spiritual-sounding concepts to the content of their mind?

Knowing yourself goes far deeper than the adoption of a set of ideas or beliefs. Spiritual ideas or beliefs may at best be helpful pointers, but in themselves they rarely have the power to dislodge the more firmly established core concepts of who you think you are, which are part of the conditioning of the human mind. Knowing yourself deeply has nothing to do with whatever ideas are floating around in your mind. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 7th, 2010 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS

“It is not from lack of religion in the ordinary sense of the word that the world is suffering, it is from lack of love, lack of awareness. And love is generated through awareness and through no other way, no other way. Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop.

Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something that you have; love is something that has you.

You do not have the wind, the stars, and the rain. You don’t possess these things; you surrender to them. And surrender occurs when you are aware”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Awareness”

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BONUS “BEST of” PONDER on THIS

“There’s a light in the depths of your darkness.
There’s a calm at the eye of every storm.
There’s a light in the depths of your darkness,
Let it shine,
Oh, let it shine.”

Dan Fogelberg, in the song “There’s a Place in the World for a Gambler” (1972)

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

“If you knew that God would appear to you and give you anything you asked for at the moment of your passing, what would you ask for? Consider the following fable: An old woman carrying a heavy load dropped it by the side of the road. Sitting down, she felt overwhelmed by despair and fatigue, so she prayed to God to help her.

God appeared and asked her to tell him what she wanted him to do. “Lift the load back up on my head so that I may go home.” The Lord did as she asked and then left. The old woman, who could have asked for anything, wasted her request, her vote, on something so ordinary and mundane that anyone could have done it.

Be prepared to ask God for what you really want when you get the opportunity. You can do this now, for the presence of God is with you now and always. Thinking and asking big is a sign of greatness.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 by Paul Ferrini in THE ECSTATIC MOMENT

“It is a lonely journey learning to give yourself the love that you seek from others. But once you know how to do it, that love can never be taken away from you. It’s a gift that will be constantly given and received. Once you have learned to love yourself in all your unruliness and complexity, with all your contradictions, your ambivalence, your self-deceptions, once you have learned to love the dark side, the hidden lunar surface of your consciousness – the anger and sadness, the self judgment and feelings of powerlessness – you have mastered the hardest part of the curriculum. The rest of your lessons here will be easy ones. Practicing what you know. Passing the gift on to others. Loving them when they attack you. Telling them “you can do it” when they are trembling in fear and lack of self-confidence. Reminding them that whatever happens is acceptable. It can be worked with.

In other words, you begin your angel apprenticeship. Right here on earth, in this body. Isn’t that a trip? Now when people ask for divine intervention, YOU get to appear in their lives. No, not Jimmy Stewart’s celestial friend. You. The angel in training.”

  Paul Ferrini, in “The Ecstatic Moment”

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