BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 by Leo Buscaglia in LOVING EACH OTHER

“Keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with us if forgiveness comes hard. We are simply human, vulnerable and far from perfect. The wrong the people do us is difficult to deal with, especially when we are innocent and can find no explanation for another’s behavior. Whey should we forgive and forget?  We forgive, for the price we pay for not forgiving is too great.

To bear grudges, to harbor hate, to seek revenge, are all self-defeating and lead us nowhere. They neither satisfy nor heal. They keep us from moving forward and starting again. They bury positive energies in negative actions which serve only to exhaust and deplete us. They keep us suspicious and hesitant to trust again. They destroy our creativity, and retard our growth.”

Leo Buscaglia, in “Loving Each Other”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Asara Lovejoy in THE ONE COMMAND

“Because we have an innate instinct to want to belong and to be part of the pack, a member of the tribe, the manipulated point of view of the media has a great influence on our psyche in terms of acceptance or rejection. We compare movies, sports events, news on the downturn of the economy, and terrorists on the same bias as the media, and we repeat these ideas as true.

As yourself if these beliefs are true: that life is hard, you have to struggle to make it, it is difficult to get what you want, others prevent you from accomplishing your dreams, the economy and world conditions are keeping you from your financial gain.

They are not. The outside influences of the world are simply thoughts that you agree to believe because you fear they might be true. If you are not secure enough in your own thinking and feeling to decide how you want your life to be lived, then you will live your life according to others’ ideas of the best or worst life for you. Any conditions of poverty, prejudice, or outside circumstances have only the power that you give them.”

Asara Lovejoy, in “The One Command”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 6th, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“In the case of prayer, there seems to be an underlying belief that if the answer to a  prayer doesn’t come immediately after praying, happen exactly like we expect that it should, and look just like we imagined it would, then it must be something other than our answer. This way of thinking is very limiting. God, you see, works in “mysterious” ways – that is to say that the workings of God are beyond the knowing and understanding of the human mind.

Why would we presume to be able to anticipate God’s next move? Why would we want to limit our possibilities for experiencing God to those experiences we currently understand, or feel comfortable with? We can not know God in the sense that we know other humans, nor can we understand how God thinks; and it would be impossible, without this knowing, to predict the manner in which God would choose to orchestrate the delivery of our answer.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, June 5th, 2008 by John Randolph Price in SUPERBEINGS

“You must never forget that whatever you hold in consciousness as the truth about yourself and God will be mirrored in the world about you. If you think there is good and evil, there will be. If you think that God can withhold your good from you, it will be held back. If you think you can be sick, you will be. If you think you will fail, you will surely do so. If you think of yourself as just a “human being” subject to the winds of fate, you will ride that roller-coaster all of your life, high one day and low the next, healthy and sick, plenty of money during “good”times and desperately in need of cash when times are “bad,” harmony followed by disorder, happiness and despair, peace and turmoil.

“But I’m only human,” you might say. “Everybody gets sick, or has an accident once in a while, or runs low on money, or has a blow-up with a neighbor.”

The idea that you are “only human” is simply not true and neither are you supposed to lead a less-than-perfect life on earth. “But what about my back and the payment on the car that’s past due and the unfair way I’m being treated at the office. Don’t tell me I’m in heaven. It’s more like hell.”

Then, it is a hell that you and you alone have created.”

John Randolph Price, in “Superbeings”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

“When you think about what you want, and you emit that frequency, you cause the energy of what you want to vibrate at that frequency and you bring it to You! As you focus on what you want, you are changing the vibration of the atoms of that thing, and you are causing it to vibrate to You. The reason you are the most powerful transmission tower in the Universe is because you have been given the power to focus your energy through your thoughts and alter the vibrations of what you are focused on, which then magnetically draws it to you.

When you think about and feel those good things that you want, you have immediately tuned yourself to that frequency, which then causes the energy of all those things to vibrate to you, and they appear in your life. The law of attraction says that like attracts like. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want. Human beings manage their own magnetizing energy, because no one outside of them can think or feel for them, and it is thoughts and feelings that create our frequencies.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

“The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to visualize it, to see it in your mind’s eye as vividly as if it were alive. You can see with the naked eye only what already exists in the external world; in a similar way, that which you can visualize in your mind’s eye already exists in the invisible realms of your mind.

Any picture which you have in your mind is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. What you form in your imagination is as real as any part of your body. The idea and the thought are real and will one day appear in your objective world if you are faithful to your mental image.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 2nd, 2008 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

“Here is a spiritual practice that will bring empowerment and creative expansion into your life. Make list of a number of everyday routine activities that you perform frequently. Include activities that you may consider uninteresting, boring, tedious, irritating, or stressful. But don’t include anything that you hate or detest doing. That’s a case for either acceptance or for stopping what you do. The list may include traveling to and from work, buying groceries, doing your laundry, or anything that you find tedious or stressful in your daily work.

Then, whenever you are engaged in those activities, let them be a vehicle for alertness. Be absolutely present in what you do and sense the alert, alive stillness within you in the background of the activity. You will soon find that what you do in such a state of heightened awareness, instead of being stressful, tedious, or irritating, is actually becoming enjoyable. To be more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but the inner dimension of consciousness that flows into the action. This is finding the joy of Being in what you are doing. If you feel your life lacks significance or is too stressful or tedious, it is because you haven’t brought that dimension into your life yet. Being conscious in what you do has not yet become your main aim.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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PONDER on THIS Special Message for Saturday, May 31st, 2008 by Asara Lovejoy in THE ONE

“We have been trained to distrust what we know because we deny what we know to gain approval from others. Because we desire love and approval from those others, we will protect a position that we think will gain us love and recognition, even at the expense of our own best interests.

The fearful thinking of the collective society, the distrust of others, the fear of terrorism, and the idea of lack and struggle have great power in our thinking for the very same reasons. We fear that we will not be liked by the tribe if we oppose a popular idea. Taking this to the extreme is the fear that we will be persecuted for those beliefs, or even killed for those beliefs.

Clearing your ancestral programs can open amazing doors of opportunity as you learn to live safely in the world connected to your greater good, your Source Mind. New friends and relationships appear in many mysterious and wonderful ways.”

Asara Lovejoy, in “The One Command”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 30th, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“Our negative thoughts are receiving the attention that our prayers deserve, and are manifesting in our lives. If you don’t believe this, then you probably believe that the negative things in your life are being thrown your way by a malevolent God out to destroy you – or at least torture and torment you with a life of frustration. While it is true that you may have been taught these kinds of things about God, you alone have the power to see the God that is in your own life. No individual outside of you can describe your God to you. If you see the world as a dangerous place, then you probably see God as the biggest danger of all. Could anything else be logical?

This is the result of programming, or a deteriorating set of thought patterns, and needs to be addressed if you truly wish to live a life of fulfillment. God is not out to get anyone; and if you think you are a victim of life, then you are indeed a victim – but only of your own thought processes and of those who programmed you to think this way. Prayer works. Thoughts are things.”

Pete Koerner, in “The Belief Formula”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, May 29th, 2008 by Deepak Chopra in AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND

“It would be impossible to isolate a single thought or feeling, a single belief or assumption, that doesn’t have some effect on aging, either directly or indirectly. Our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being changed by them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune system; falling in love can boost it. Despair and hopelessness raise the risk of heart attacks and cancer, thereby shortening life. Joy and fulfillment keep us healthy and extend life. This means that the line between biology and psychology can’t really be drawn with any certainty.

Because the mind influences every cell in the body, human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself. Hundreds of research findings from the last three decades have verified that aging is much more dependent on the individual than was ever dreamed of in the past.”

Deepak Chopra, in “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 by Rhonda Britten in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE by John St. Augustine

“Most people I have worked with over the years seem to be waiting for someone or something outside of themselves for permission to move on. Years go by, and we wait…and wait…and wait. Nothing happens, and do you know why? Because not only is no one coming, but also you wouldn’t believe them if they did grant you permission to live your life in spite of fear. How many people do you know, including yourself, who keep doing the same things over and over gain, hurting themselves and the people around them, and they know it on some level, but continue to do it anyway? It’s because they have not gotten to the point inside where the person they should trust the most – themselves, gives them permission to drop what was and move on to what can be.

Look, this is tough stuff for sure, and it’s not going to be easy. Life is not set up to be easy. Only humans think this way, and it holds us back. Growth is a constant wrestling match between who we think we are – based on our beliefs – and who we hope to become some day. If fear is the deciding factor, guess what wins out every time.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Stuart Wilde in WHISPERING WINDS OF CHANGE

“Everything you commit to will have weight. It may be the emotional weight of owning something, it may be the weight of duties you take one, or the weight of relationships, especially if you’re the one holding the relationship up. Then there’s the financial weight you take on. Every financial commitment will probably force you into tick-tock*, because that’s mostly where the money is. You may have to go into tick-tock from time to time anyway, but you don’t want to be buried in so deep it drives you crazy. In my view, it’s better to live a humble, happy life, traveling and experiencing the world, than to own it. What’s the point of lots of stuff that you have to polish, insure, and worry over?”

Stuart Wilde, in “Whispering Winds of Change”

*Tick-tock, as Stuart refers to it, is more commonly known as the “work-a-day world”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, May 26th, 2008 by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. in IF LIFE IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES

“Spending time in nature can be a wonderful source of inspiration. The natural world has an energy to it that can put you int touch with the deepest parts of yourself. Thoreau spent two years alone in the woods so he could commune with nature and access the wisdom inside him. It was there that he wrote some of his most inspiring work – much of which contains timeless wisdom that is every bit as valid and true a century later. He discovered that all his answers lay inside him, just as yours lie inside you. Swim in the ocean, climb a tree, hike a mountain, or simply take a long walk in the woods. Do whatever activity calls to you that will draw you into the rhythm of nature and draw out your natural instincts.”

Cherie Carter-Scott, in “If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules”

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PONDER on THIS Special Message for Saturday, May 24th, 2008 by Asara Lovejoy in THE ONE COMMAND

“Fear, lack, and insecurity are the emotions of your small self. Your small self believes that the fearful experiences from your childhood are true, and that you are powerless to change what you fear. As an adult, you may find yourself attracted to fearful ideas, which are prevalent almost everywhere…You go into agreement with those fears and ideas because, as a child, you were trained to agree with the outside authority of your parents, right or wrong. It’s natural to simply go along. It is natural from your tribal, instinctual brain to want to be part of the tribe and to agree with the rest of the pack as well.

We repeat the patterns of our earliest trauma because that is what the subconscious has learned. Now you can learn another way. In the simple process of going to that greater capacity within you, your Source Mind, you learn to think, feel, and react in another part of your consciousness. You are in your Source Mind when you lower your brain wave to theta. When you are connected to Source, you can instantly change any and all early traumatic patterns, activate your DNA for wealth, and add knowledge of new experiences you have never had before.”

Asara Lovejoy, in “The One Command”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 23rd, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA

“Right living is the result of right thinking. You project right thoughts out ahead of you on the road of life, and then you experience the reality of living in those right thoughts when you have arrived at them – or more specifically, when time has delivered them to you. If you are experiencing turmoil, you are experiencing the result of at least one stray negative thought, or maybe an intentionally placed negative thought. The thought, which you may have long since forgotten, has come to fruition as an obstacle in your path. By redressing the original thought, or by creating a new thought to replace the negative one, we project better realities into our path and then we live the right thought.

The right thought leads to the living of that right thought – right thinking leads to right living. Any obstacle is but a moment of your life, unless you prolong the experience by dwelling there in your thoughts, instead of allowing that moment to fall into the past. Allow your mind to let go of the negative so it will be able to take hold of your next experience – hopefully one created with peace and joy in mind. Fill your life with pleasing thoughts of the reality you desire. Do not dwell on the negative. It takes right thinking to project positive experiences for ourselves, so get in the driver’s seat and get in the right lane to right living. It’s not that difficult, and your life will surely be a better place to live.”

Pete Koerner in “The Belief Formula”

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