BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 by Karol K. Truman in FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE DON’T DIE

“How does love cast out fear? Real love is unconditional. Real love accepts the perfection of all…accepts that EVERYTHING is perfect just the way it is, and EVERYONE is perfect just the way they are! When we accept everything and everyone just the way they are, there is no reason to find fault or judge. When we are able to accept the perfection in everything and everyone, the ego doesn’t get bogged down with it’s fears – fear of not being equal; fear of being rejected; fear of not being good enough; fear of failure; fear of success; fear of the future; fear of being unworthy; or whatever the fears may be.

Unconditional love accepts the perfection of all people and all situations just the way they are. This statement can be confusing because most people want to be better. Too often we look at our incorrectly perceived problems and our incorrect perception of others’ faults and we think they are not perfect – that the perfection is to change – that we can’t be perfect until we are changed, or someone else is changed. The problem is, too many of us are so emotionally involved in trying to get others to change that we fail to realize that the only person we can really change is numero uno – number one, OURSELF!

Karol K. Truman, in “Feelings Buried Alive Don’t Die”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 26th, 2010 by Daphne Rose Kingma in THE TEN THINGS TO DO WHEN YOUR LIFE FALLS APART

“When times are really terrible, people often have thoughts of throwing in the towel and giving up. Indeed, you may feel so depressed that it seems as if there’s no way through. The newspaper keeps bring us strings of stories about people who have decided to take the final irreversible step…But unless the cosmos itself has decided to carry you off, it’s not time to be done, not time to throw in the towel, or the sponge or whatever you feel like throwing in, whether with a loud banshee scream or a pitiful whimper.

Instead, it is time to come once again to the altar of your competence, to claim the riches in yourself, to live the power of who you are, of who you’ve always been. It’s time to tease out the thread your soul has woven through your life. Crisis is a challenge to express your strengths at their highest arc, which is when you are also at your most beautiful.”

Daphne Rose Kingma, in “The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by John St. Augustine in EVERY MOMENT MATTERS

“Every great teacher, master, and prophet since day one has told use the same thing: what you think about, you become. And after a jillion years – and a jillion books and a jillion seminars – one would think that the human species would “get it.” Sure, we have made some progress – we don’t boil people in vats of oil because we think they are witches, and last time I checked the iron maiden wasn’t used in court – but we also could make the argument that as the species progresses, we have just become more sophisticated in how we torture ourselves and each other. It’s great to want to change the world, but it’s more important that the world not change that deep divine core that all of us have but rarely access.”

John St. Augustine, in “Every Moment Matters”

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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 by Hueina Su in INTENSIVE CARE FOR THE NURTURER’S SOUL

“Some people hold on to resentment, anger, guilt,and hurt from their past. Have you ever seen older people with permanently grouchy faces? It’s like they are wearing years of pain, hurt and resentment on their faces, and they tend to see the not-so-perfect quality in everyone around them. Maybe someone wronged them in the past, and they still feel resentful and wouldn’t forgive that person. Maybe they feel guilty for what they did or did not do years ago, and still beat themselves up over and over. Resentment and guilt can ruin any relationship. Have you ever tried to guilt trip someone? How effective is that? ‘

If you are in a relationship with someone who tries to make you feel guilty, I bet you would feel resentful toward that person over time. Malachy McCourt once said, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” You might think that by not forgiving someone, you are punishing him/her, but in fact, you are the one (sometimes, the only one) suffering. I have seen in many cases where people wouldn’t forgive their spouses for things from as bad as cheating or abuse, to very trivial things that their spouses don’t even remember. The sad thing is, sometimes their spouses didn’t even know why they were mad in the first place. So, who is being punished?”

Hueina Su, in “Intensive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 21st, 2009 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

“Good health and vitality are influenced by the following four elements: (1) our thoughts and emotions, (2) what goes into and on the body, (3) the body’s activities, and (4) external circumstances. Holding on to grudges and resentments and seething with anger and envy lower our vibration and invite in lower-level energies that attack the body in the same that we attract unsavory people by negative thinking.

Ponder this: because we attract only those people, events, and conditions that match our frequency signature, when we keep our frequency signature as high as possible, nothing with a lower frequency, including viruses, people, and events, can enter our sphere. We are more powerful than anything in the universe, for we are spirits, godlike souls possessing the power of consciousness. For this reason, never give your faith or vote to any disease, person, or event that you do not want, because if you do, you will bring it into your life by giving it your soul power of manifestation.”

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 Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

“Every cell of your body has the entire energy force of the universe located within it. Instead of perceiving yourself as one human in the vastness of the universe, try the reverse. Try imagining that the world is within you. In every cell of your body the world and all of its magic is present and available to you. If you use logic and rational analysis to try to explain miracles, you will soon be back thinking how impossible all of this is. You will trap yourself in old patterns, helpless and hopeless about what is possible for you.

Allow yourself the luxury of believing in the divinity of your own soul. Allow yourself to know that every thought you have is a miracle incapable of being explained away by logical, scientific discourse. Know that you, body and soul, are a miracle and that nothing you can imagine in your mind is impossible. Even the creation of life itself comes from that invisible dimension of thought.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 19th, 2010 by Laura Alden Kamm in INTUITIVE WELLNESS

“Along your spiritual path you may encounter dark nights of the soul when you feel lost, powerless, and alone in the world. If you experience any of these feelings, take a piece of paper and write the following three words in this order:

Trust
Faith
Power

Put this piece of paper where you can see it all the time – on your refrigerator, your computer monitor, the bathroom mirror, or anyplace in your house that calls to you (remember to use your intuition, even in such seemingly simple situations). Look at the words for a moment. If you feel power – not power over someone or something but empowered – you will own and feel secure in your concept of self.

If you feel power in this way, you will automatically have faith – faith in yourself, faith in God, faith in what you are doing. Further, if you have power and faith, you will have trust – trust that outcome of all things will be for your highest good. You will also trust in the universal support system that weaves itself throughout nature and life itself.”

Laura Alden Kamm, in “Intuitive Wellness”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 16th, 2010 by Maria Mar in CATCH THE DREAM EXPRESS

“When the beliefs you inherited from your Ancestors are healthy, relevant to the present and effectively moving you towards your dreams, they are the Ancestors’ Gifts. They are the air under your wing.

But when they are obsolete, based on negative worldview and embedded in a life-or-death pattern drenched in fear, these old beliefs are your Shadow Inheritance. This inheritance holds you back. It is an invisible shackle solidly built in your subconscious. The links of that chain are made of expectations, assumptions, learned defensive patterns and a cast-iron worldview. It has nothing to do with what you consciously believe. It may hold you back against your own conscious, chosen values, beliefs and dreams. The subconscious runs about 95 percent of your life, so that is a BIG chain. That heavy chain keeps you a prisoner of the past.

A great part of your self-development path is to release those learned limitations…When you assume responsibility for choosing your beliefs and acting towards your goals, you chose freedom. Freedom is a path to love.”

Maria Mar, in “Catch the Dream Express”

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 Thursday, April 15th, 2010 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

“You must be totally honest with yourself if you are ever to rid yourself entirely of blame. The way to begin is to take total responsibility for everything that you are in your life right now. That’s right. Say to yourself, “I am the sum total of my choices up until this moment.” Your enculturation may make this a difficult precept for you to accept. You may want to say, “I couldn’t help it,” or “It was someone else’s fault,” or “I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” or “I was dealt a dirty deal,” or “Family circumstances created my misery,” or whatever excuse you have developed to absolve yourself of responsibility.

Discard all that and look at your life from a different perspective. Everything that happened to you is a lesson you can be grateful for. Everyone who came into your life was a teacher, regardless of how much you choose to hate and blame him or her. There truly are no accidents. This universe is working perfectly, including all the subatomic particles that make up you, and those you blame. It is all just as it is supposed to be. Nothing more, nothing less! All of those situations, including when you were a small child, contain immensely valuable lessons for you to absorb and benefit from, lessons which are blocked by feelings of hate and blame.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 14th, 2009 by David R. Hawkins in HEALING AND RECOVERY

“An illness is merely our consciousness calling attention to something that needs to be looked at. There is something about which we are feeling guilty, fearful, or other negative emotion. There is a belief system we are holding that has to be let go of and canceled. There is something that has to be forgiven, and something within us that has to be loved, so we thank whatever it is for bringing it to our awareness. We say, “Thank you, ulcer. I see. You forced me to look at the way in which I was condemning myself and not loving myself. Thank you, hypoglycemia, for showing me how much I have been living in fear.”…The pain serves a purpose, and we now hold it in a different way. We are going to make lemonade out of lemons.

Instead of going into self-pity or resentment about an illness, instead of “poor me” or being a victim, we say, “What is this trying to tell me? What is it I’m supposed to learn?” We get interested in learning about the nature of consciousness and finding out what is underlying the illness so we can heal it through a greater understanding.”

David R. Hawkins, in Healing and Recovery

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. in THE WAYS OF THE MYSTIC: SEVEN PATHS TO GOD

“God helps those who help themselves. If you are not manifesting creativity and abundance in your work,relationships, and finances, take a look at the practical side of things. It is one thing to plant seeds, another to follow through with the watering and the weeding. God creates the miracle of growth through which the seed manifests its full potential as a flower, but we need to cooperate in the gardening.

Do you need to train for a different job? Are you practicing generosity of spirit in the workplace? Is your workplace dysfunctional? If so, do you need to move on, or can you help facilitate positive change?”

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., in “The Ways of the Mystic: Seven Paths to God”

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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, April 12th, 2010 by Deborah Denicola in THE FUTURE THAT BROUGHT HER HERE

“Just as Jung believed that evolution is an ongoing process, it appears that the universe is conscious. Many of us are intentionally changing – can change and will change – our reality on this planet by affirmation and visualization. I believe that what the psychic poet William Blake called the “doors of perception” open as we inhabit the belief that they will. I believe that the sacredness of our environment, this Earth, can speak to us, just as developing intuition allows our bodies to speak to us.

We are returning to the laws of magic, which is really just the changing of consciousness at will, a holistic, harmonious way of being human. Our excursion into the faithless, rational, left-brained incarceration we have imposed on our species and on civilization, our belief in separation from our true source, and our lack of unity with one another has run its course. It is already over for many awakening souls alive in the present.”

Deborah Denicola, in “The Future That Brought Her Here”

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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 Friday, April 9th, 2010 by Daphne Rose Kingma in THE TEN THINGS TO DO WHEN YOUR LIFE FALLS APART

“When a crisis occurs, it’s asking not only that we scramble and find some good tools to deal with the vexing problems at hand, but also that we grow. Tough times, pain, illness, radically changed circumstances, walls that cave in, rugs that get pulled out from under us, floods that inundate, fires that turn our worlds to heaps of ashes – these “inspire” us to do something different, to become more, better, other than we have been.
Indeed, these disasters are all the ways the cosmos has of saying: we’ve been waiting for you to do something different. You didn’t get it the first time – or the first hundred times – so we’ve provided yet another opportunity, a “discount special” for This Life Only, for you to make the changes your soul has been crying out for.”

Daphne Rose Kingma in, “The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 8th, 2010 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS…AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

“Fixing yourself is a task you will never complete because your quest is founded on a faulty premise. You cannot fix yourself because you are not broken. You can construct an entire world based on the belief there is something wrong with you and spend a lifetime trying to rectify it. If that scares you, it should. You might constantly question your motives, actions, and relationships, while the one thing you needed to question was the assumption that you are lacking.

The main thing wrong with you is the thought that there is something wrong with you. Your problem is that you think there is a problem. If you focus long enough on erroneous assumptions, they will confirm themselves. Then you will attract people who tell you what you have been telling yourself. Then your faults really seem real. But that does not make them real. It just proves that your mind is powerful enough to create a world and then live in it.”

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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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 by Suzanne Scurlock-Durana in FULL BODY PRESENCE

“Another common form of resistance is to secretly, nor not so secretly, wait for the someone or something of one’s dreams to come along to finally make one whole and truly happy. This behavior pattern shows itself in various forms – a fear of rejection, impossibly high standards, a fear of commitment or of entrapment, for example. In whatever form, this pattern limits us because we disconnect from our internal experience and dissipate our energy focusing outside of ourselves, looking for that other person or situation that is going to solve our internal distress or loneliness.

In this pattern, we once again unknowingly relinquish our power. When we stop waiting and we take back the responsibility for our happiness, our power returns as well. Opportunities come to us when we are at home in our power, open to receive what we desire.”

Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, in “Full Body Presence”

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