BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 by Deepak Chopra in HOW TO KNOW GOD

Posted on April 2, 2009 by jmaz479

“…After you assume authorship in of your own life, outcomes are never in doubt. No matter what happens to you, each event has a place and a meaning. You see that your spiritual journey makes sense, even down to the smallest details. It isn’t that your ego wakes up every morning and arranges your day. Events still unfold unpredictably, yet at the moment they occur, you know that you are adequate to meet them. No question arises that doesn’t have its own answer somewhere inside it. The adventure is to uncover the creative solutions that most appeal to you. Like an author that can make any world he chooses on the page, you gain authorship based on your own inclinations, with no outside help and no second opinions.”

Deepak Chopra, in “How to Know God”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on April 1, 2009 by jmaz479

“Here’s the deal: Resisting the inevitable is an exercise in futility. The process of transformation excludes no one. The only question is: How hard will you fight the changes that are manifesting in your life? What will it take you to embrace them? We are a world filled with people who desperately wish their lives to be different in some way. And yet when the universe presents options (that may look at the time like closed doors, lost love, and empty bank accounts), we balk at the idea of having to change within.

Every outer circumstance is manifest from an inner place, and if that place does not include transformation, then you remain a leaf-munching worm that is food for birds. To tell the truth, even when you transform, you are food for birds – you just look better. Be open to the transformation that is being placed in your path. It makes the time in the cocoon that much easier.”

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

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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, March 31st, 2009 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

Posted on March 31, 2009 by jmaz479

“Manifesting your dreams begins with the difficult task of discovering what they truly are. As children, we follow the footsteps of our parents and teachers. Most of us accept their guidance and wisdom about what classes to take in school. They influence our choice of hobbies, sports, and clubs that fill up our free time. As we get older we often choose our careers and our mates based on ideals established by our elders. But at what point do we stop listening to these external voices and tune in to our inner guides? When do we decide that perhaps the path we’re on is not really our own? Could this be the reason we feel something is missing in our lives?

These are the kinds of questions we fear most because they require us to second-guess what we’ve been taught. Have you ever questioned your belief in God?  For some, to question holy doctrine is a mortal sin. But if we don’t challenge our most basic beliefs we won’t grow as spiritual beings. Our lives will simply run along lines established by our parents, and we’ll never go beyond those boundaries that were set when we were kids.”

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

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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, March 30th, 2009 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

Posted on March 30, 2009 by jmaz479

“Memorize and continually remind yourself, “My intention creates my reality.” Experience with intention as a way of creating miracles is probably an unfamiliar concept to you. Most of us have been raised to think of our desires, wishes, hopes and fantasies as the seeds to our personal fulfillment. However, desires are stagnant, they do not set energy into motion, they do not create for you. Intention is the energy of your soul coming into contact with your physical reality. What you see around you, whom you associate with, how you function daily, what your relationships are like, how much money you make, how you get along with others, the shape of your physical body, and virtually everything about the physical you, is a result of your intention, or how your thoughts become energized into action.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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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, March 27th, 2009 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

Posted on March 27, 2009 by jmaz479

“Things can go any way. All things are indeed possible. This is why people say, “Be careful what you ask for; you just might get it!” We need to be specific – and patient – if there is a specific thing we would like to see. Remember the Genie in the bottle? This is what that story is about. Just as they say that you can see what you want in life by looking around at what you have; your ability, or inability, to see creation is certainly no reflection on the creative Force that acts to fulfill your every desire.

Just because you haven’t seen it yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist; and just because you have judged an experience as negative, doesn’t mean that you are under attack. God, or the Universe, or whatever force you believe placed you here, is for you – not against you. Get that straight in your head and you will have a much easier time seeing how quickly and precisely your prayers really are answered.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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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 Thursday, March 26th, 2009 by Gary Zukav in THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

Posted on March 26, 2009 by jmaz479

“If you are unkind to yourself you will be unkind to others, and if you are negligent of yourself you will be that to others. Only by feeling compassion for yourself can you feel compassion for others. If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others and you cannot stand to see others loved. If you cannot treat your own self kindly, you will resent that treatment when you see it in anyone else. If you cannot love yourself, loving others becomes a very painful endeavor with only occasional moments of comfort.”

Gary Zukav, in “The Seat of the Soul”

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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, March 25th, 2009 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

Posted on March 25, 2009 by jmaz479

“Make sure your goal is not an inflated image of yourself and therefore a concealed form of ego, such as wanting to become a famous movie star, a famous writer, or a wealthy entrepreneur. Also make sure it is not focused on having this or that, such as a mansion by the sea, your own company, or ten million dollars it the bank. An enlarged image of yourself or a vision of yourself having this or that are all static goals and therefore don’t empower you.

Instead, make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. Instead of seeing yourself as a famous actor and writer and so on, see yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel how that activity enriches or deepens not only your life but that of countless others. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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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, March 24th, 2009 by Jack Kornfield in A PATH WITH HEART

Posted on March 24, 2009 by jmaz479

“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive or caring way. This simple and profound intimacy is the love that we all long for. These moments of touching and being touched can become a foundation for a path with heart, and they take place in the most immediate and direct way. Mother Teresa put it like this:  In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”

Jack Kornfield, in “A Path With Heart”

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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, March 23rd, 2009 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on March 23, 2009 by jmaz479

“When you are ripe and ready for a right relationship, car, home, job, physical healing, or any desired next step, there are thousands of ways your riches can come to you. If you fixate on one of those avenues and demand that your success arrive through it alone, you set yourself up for frustration, pain, and conflict, and delay or cut off the many other ways the universe

From the level of the human personality or ego, you cannot know enough variables about a situation to play God and make it happen in a certain way. Perhaps there are reasons one way isn’t working and another is. It may simply be a matter of timing. Can you trust that life may have a better idea for you?”

Alan Cohen, in “Relax Into Wealth”

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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, March 20th, 2009 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

Posted on March 20, 2009 by jmaz479

“It is now a scientifically established fact that your psychology and physiology (mind and body) are inextricably linked. A sharp, middle-school aged child can describe for you the way our thoughts reflect in our bodies through nervous, chemical, and mechanical energy and the subsequent changes these energies cause. The hormones released when you are in a state of stress, anxiety, anger, grief, worry, and other negative emotional states, make you feel bad – not figuratively, but quite literally.

When you are nervous, you may not have real “butterflies in your stomach,” but your stomach really is quivering as a result of the stress hormones it is experiencing. When the thoughts are different, the electricity and chemicals are different, and the feelings, or emotions, are different. Frustration may make your neck sore; while anger may give you a sharp pain in the area of your gall bladder and fear may make your knees or bladder weak. Every thought has some emotional response; some thoughts and emotions are subtle and calm while others can be intense and painful.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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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 Thursday, March 19th, 2009 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOUR SACRED SELF

Posted on March 19, 2009 by jmaz479

“More-is-better is a twentieth-century disease that can obscure the path of the sacred quest. Has this belief become a part of your daily life?  Where is the peace in more-is-better? The pursuit of more confines one to a life of striving. It is impossible to arrive and enjoy life. Have you been conditioned to accept this belief? If you’ve spent a lot of life energy on more is better it can be difficult to halt the momentum. You need to know if it is a cornerstone of your life.

Some of the signs that more-is-better is the foundation of your life are the following: you must be busy to be fulfilled; you must make more money than you currently are making; you must get a promotion to prove your worth; you need to have more of everything. To change this, you will want to declare a halt to your constant pursuit of more by knowing that you don’t need anything else in order to be free.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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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, March 18th, 2009 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

Posted on March 18, 2009 by jmaz479

“It’s important to give up yesteryear when yesteryear is gone. I remember complaining to my best friend that when I lecture, I’m not as fast as I once was, not as snap-crackle-and-pop in my delivery. His response was helpful: that many in my audience aren’t as fast now either, that they too are no longer as snap-crackle-and-pop, and it would seem disingenuous if I tried to be. Age slows us down, but it takes us deeper, into realms no less fertile, spiritually, than those we inhabited before. As the years go by, we lose some of the outer sparkle that so gloriously infused our youth – but an inner sparkle emerges that we never before had. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “As I age, my beauty steals inward.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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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, March 17th, 2009 by Dan Millman in LIVING ON PURPOSE

Posted on March 17, 2009 by jmaz479

“Mentors can point the way, but we must make the journey. So living on purpose entails, most of all, trusting our inner guidance system. If we do not trust our own hearts – our deepest desires and destiny – what can we trust? God may rule the universe, but here on earth, we are each the captain of our own ship; no one can steer our course for us. But when a good navigator speaks, it may be God whispering, and we do well to listen.”

Dan Millman, in “Living on Purpose”

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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, March 16th, 2009 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Posted on March 16, 2009 by jmaz479

“There is one emotion which is the cause of the lack of wealth in the lives of many. Most people learn this the hard way. It is envy. For example, if you see a competitor depositing a large sum of money in the bank, and you have only a meager amount to deposit, does it make you envious? The way to overcome this emotion is to say to yourself, “Isn’t it wonderful! I rejoice in that man’s prosperity. I wish him greater and greater wealth.”

To entertain envious thoughts is devastating because it places you in a very negative position; therefore, wealth flows from you instead of to you. If you are ever annoyed or irritated by the prosperity or wealth of another, claim immediately that you truly wish for him greater wealth in every possible way. This will neutralize the negative thoughts in your mind and cause an even greater measure of wealth to flow to you by the law of your own subconscious mind.”

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

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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, March 13th, 2009 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

Posted on March 13, 2009 by jmaz479

“We must decide for ourselves what is truly important and set our own priorities. We must choose our own beliefs according to what we feel in our hearts. I am not suggesting that your beliefs are wrong, I am suggesting that you do some serious reflection and determine if your beliefs are really yours. Then, take an honest look and see if those beliefs are really leading you down a road of happiness and fulfillment, or if they are keeping you in a place of fear and judgment. You have to decide for yourself; but there is a very real threat to accepting someone else’s beliefs as your own – the threat of lying to your subconscious and crippling your ability to believe anything new.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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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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