PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 13th, 2008 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

“Whatever you enjoy receiving in your life, remind yourself, “I deserve this.” It is Okay to feel deserving. And you will if you believe the self that is receiving something is worthy and important. Abundance is related to how you feel about yourself. If you feel that you are important enough to ask, and divine enough to receive, receiving will be your reward. If, on the other hand, you feel unworthy, it will be almost impossible for abundance to flow into your life.

Think of how a tree unfolds to all of its magnificent potential, always reaching for the sunshine and growing and flourishing. Would you ever suggest to a tree, “You should be ashamed of yourself for having that disgusting moss on your bark, and for letting your limbs grow crooked?” Of course not. A tree allows the life force to work through it. You have the power within you thoughts to be as natural as that tree.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Sunday, October 12th, 2008 by Ainslie MacLeod in THE INSTRUCTION

“In everyday life, nothing – and I stress nothing – gets in the way of living the life your soul intended more than this: other people’s expectations. Teachers, friends, politicians – they all “know” what’s best for you. Parents can be some of the biggest culprits. The problem with so many of them is that they assume their children are here for the same reason they are. They may be well-meaning: “We just want you to be happy.” But, more often than not, what they think will make you happy is for you to live their destiny – not your own.

Parents have the power to influence you in ways no one else can. Their control over you may be subtle or overt. It may not even be intentional, but it can last a lifetime…This is your life to live – according to your own life plan. If you marry Becky or Larry because Mom and Dad like them, that’s fine, as long as you do too. But if you make a major life decision based on Mom and Dad’s desires rather than your own, you may regret your choice long after they’re both gone…And what if you make the wrong choice? Well, that’s how you learn. It will help you make a better one next time. And don’t forget, it’s one thing to screw up because you made a poor choice, and quite another to screw up because you allowed someone else to make that choice for you.”

Ainslie MacLeod, in “The Instruction”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 10th, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“Praying for three minutes at bedtime doesn’t undo an entire day’s worth of negativity, but it is a good start. Praying for three minutes at the end of a day of positive thinking and acting, however, is even better. Every moment of thought adds to some future moment; and you have the freedom and ability to choose what thought you will contribute to your future reality. Learn how to use this tremendous power – and then use it. Your whole life will change for the better.

If you are not religious, don’t worry; praying doesn’t require you to start acting like an evangelist, or a “Bible-thumper,” or any of the things that may have turned you away from church. You don’t even have to be a Christian or believe in the Bible in order to pray and be heard. I realize that may sound controversial; but Jesus wasn’t preaching the Bible – and He wasn’t a Christian. The Bible you know didn’t exist then; and the people He taught already had a set of their own beliefs and religious texts – the same belief systems Jesus grew up with.

Jesus was teaching techniques for effective thinking and living – new ways of looking at and THINKING about those teachings which were ancient even in the time of Jesus. Jesus was teaching ways to make old teachings produce new fruit – simply by changing the way you think about those teachings.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 9th, 2008 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

“Develop a psychology that works, and stay away from pomposity and arrogance and righteousness. Avoid as much as possible talking about your philosophy to other people. Don’t bother to try and win people over with your philosophy through personal arguments, and don’t bother to demonstrate it. What you keep to yourself has power; what you blab about yourself becomes less powerful. Now, it’s completely different if someone comes up and asks you something. Then you can tell them what you know. But don’t become a demonstrator of spiritual wonderfulness. Develop a philosophy that works, and any time a system doesn’t work, take a long hard look at what you believe. Bag it if it doesn’t work.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite 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, October 8th, 2008 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

Action is a word that can imply “work” to some people, but inspired action will not feel like work at all. The difference between inspired action and action is this: Inspired action is when you are acting to receive. If you are in action trying to make it happen, you have slipped backward. Inspired action is effortless, and it feels wonderful because you are on the frequency of receiving.

Imagine life as a fast-moving river. When you are acting to make something happen it will feel as if you are going against the current of the river. It will feel hard and like a struggle. When you are acting to receive from the Universe, you will feel as if you are flowing with the current of the river. It will feel effortless. That is the feeling of inspired action, and of being in the flow of the Universe and life.”

Rhonda Byrne in, “The Secret”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 by Emmet Fox in YOUR HEART’S DESIRE

“An old adage says, “God has a plan for every person, and God has one for you,” and this is absolutely correct. Your real problem, therefore, in fact the only problem that you ever have, is to find your true place in life. Find that, and everything else will follow almost automatically. Until you do find your true place in life, however, you never will be really happy, no matter how much money or distinction you may acquire; and until you are happy, you will neither be healthy or free.”

Emmet Fox, in “Your Heart’s Desire”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 6th, 2008 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

“Most of us – all of us, in fact, except the enlightened masters – live to some extent in a state of “love withhold.”‘ We are waiting to see if a person is good enough to receive our kindness, our generosity, or our love. People hardly have dates anymore; we have auditions. We think we need to understand a person to see whether they are worthy of our love, but in fact, unless we love them we cannot understand them.

Someone’s religion, looks, financial status, professional position – so many things are used by the ego to dictate who is worthy or appropriate for us. Yet God would have us keep our hearts open to people as a matter of faith. And any faith that has us close our hearts to anyone is not a genuine faith in God.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 3rd, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“If you get fired you may not have asked for that; but you may have asked for a better job, more money, or nicer coworkers, and just haven’t had the inspiration to go get it. Now you do. Clearly, I can’t enumerate all the combinations of events that can form answers to prayers. No man can; and God does work in mysterious ways that are way beyond any knowing. In fact, you may never be able to see such connections with some events. But you will begin to notice; and if you work on it, you will see these connections most of the time. You will become one with this process and see your true place in it all. You are not a victim – you are a creator. Recognize this, acknowledge the works of God in your life, and you will truly experience a life of fullness.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 by Dan Millman in LIVING ON PURPOSE

“Cycles are the natural order of life, like the four seasons that follow one another in endless rounds. Hardship and pleasure alike will pass in time, for whatever rises will fall, and whatever falls will rise again in one or another form. This is the nature of the world. We cannot control the cycles of life, but we can ride them like bucking horses or flowing waves. By accepting our own changing seasons we move in harmony with the cycles of our world.”

Dan Millman, in “Living on Purpose”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

“How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.”

Eckhart Tolle in, “A New Earth”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 by Gary Zukav in THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

“What does it feel like to remember your soul’s task? When the deepest part of you becomes in engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing. The personality that is engaged in the work of its soul is buoyant. It is not burdened with negativity. It does not fear. It experiences purposefulness and meaning. It delights in its work and in others. It is fulfilled and fulfilling.”

Gary Zukav, in “Seat of the Soul”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, September 29th, 2008 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH, BEING YOUR HIGHER SELF

“To create things more rapidly, focus on the essence of what something will give you rather than its form. For instance, if you want a new car or home, focus on what you want to get out of having them. You may want a new car to give you reliability and new home to give you more space, and so on. You can begin to create the essence of what you want right now. You can work with your existing car to make it more reliable; and perhaps you can clear out a corner of a room to create more space in your current home. By making your old car more reliable, you become more magnetic to a new, reliable car.

Ask what is the essence you expect to get from losing weight, having a new soul-mate, or whatever else you want. As you focus on the essence of what you want, you discover that there are many ways you can have the essence right now. When you bring the essence of what you want into your life, you become more magnetic to the specific form you want it to come in as well.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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PONDER on THIS for Sunday, September 28th, 2008 by Richard Bartlett in MATRIX ENERGETICS

“Every treatment in medicine, including most so-called natural alternatives, is reaction to a symptom or a condition. This symptom/treatment duality means that you have this condition (symptom), and I am going to prescribe treatment for that condition. It is a stimulus-response or behaviorist model at its core, largely extrapolated from laboratory studies on rats. But how many of you reading this think rat physiology and biochemistry are close enough to those of human beings that our medical health-care should be based on them?

One of the greatest problems that I have noticed in the treatment of symptoms from within this stimulus-response model is that anything you do in reaction to a condition tends to add energy into sustaining the unwanted state. If you address a condition by treating it, you devote more attention to its existence, thus validating its reality. When you do this you make the condition itself more linear, predictable, and ultimately more self-aware. That, I am sure, is exactly what we don’t want: for our conditions to be more self-aware.”

Richard Bartlett, D.C., N.D., in “Matrix Energetics”

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Compiler’s Note: This is a fascinating book that effectively creates a paradigm shift in how we approach the entire concept of health and healing. Although parts of the book are highly metaphysical in nature, the author’s presentation of the content is not overly complex and his conversational writing style makes the work very entertaining.

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, September 26th, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“Our gift is free-will. This simply means that we can choose our thoughts; for you can not choose a feeling, or an action, without thinking first – or without choosing to think. Our only decision from one moment to the next is what thought to place our attention on. Focused, concentrated attention to our fondest wishes defines any prayer – and we all have the power to choose when and where to focus our attention.

Consider that when you pray, all you are doing is concentrating your thoughts for a brief period of time – usually to give thanks, and ask for help for yourself or someone else. What if you concentrated for more than a few moments? What if you chose to spend time thinking about what you wanted instead of the problems in your life? What if you could learn to not worry about things you cannot change or control? Choose better thoughts and your life will change for the better. All thought is prayer; all prayers are answered – so choose your thoughts wisely!”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, September 25th, 2008 by Marianne Williamson in ILLUMINATA

“Religious institutions are not the only arbiters of religious experience. They do not own the Truth, for Truth cannot be owned. Nor should they think they hold some franchise on our spiritual life. They are consultants and frameworks, but they are not God Itself. We should not confuse the path with the destination.

It’s simplistic to think that many Americans turned away from organized religion and now we’re back, as though that’s the whole story. We turned away from religion, found that life without conscious awareness of God is difficult, and we’re now back to religion because that is, theoretically, where to find God. But we do not go back as the spiritually half-interested, complacent congregants that many of our parents were when we were growing up. We go back with an interest in actually HAVING a religious experience.

Organized religion will not be the same; it will step up to bat, religiously, or it will wither away. Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.”

Marianne Williamson, in “Illuminata” 

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