BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on January 21, 2008 by jmaz479

“It is important for each of us to consider the meaning of those words “they know not what they do.” People who are inflicting harm on others really and truly do not know what they are doing to others. They are always acting out of their own anger, hatred, blame, or revenge. What they direct at others says nothing about the others. However, it says something powerful about them. This is what you must learn about forgiveness. Those people who have behaved toward you in any way which you find disagreeable or hurtful really and truly do not know what they have done to you.

“Why?” you might reasonably ask. Because they are unable to see that we are all connected. They are living out of their separateness. They see themselves as separate from everyone else. They cannot know what they are doing to others, because they feel no reference to others. They are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them for their behavior is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree and destroying the appearance of the tree.”

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

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 21st, 2008 by Marianne Williamson in EVERYDAY GRACE

Posted on January 20, 2008 by jmaz479

“From a spiritual perspective, while we can lose our earthly employment, we cannot lose the job God gave us. We are the permanent holders of a spiritual career, for it is what we are and not what we do that represents our greatest work in the world. As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.”

Marianne Williamson, in “Everyday Grace”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 18th 2008 by Dr. Joseph Murphy in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Posted on January 17, 2008 by jmaz479

“If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. You know what you want, and you will definitely refuse to let the thieves (thoughts) of hatred, anger, hostility, and ill-will rob you of peace, harmony, health, and happiness. You cease to become upset by people, conditions, news, and events by identifying your thoughts immediately with your aim in life. Your aim is peace, health, inspiration, harmony, and abundance. Feel a river of peace flowing through you now. Your thought is the immaterial and invisible power, and you choose to let it bless, inspire, and give you peace.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 17th, 2008 by Florence Scovel Shinn in THE SECRET DOOR TO SUCCESS

Posted on January 16, 2008 by jmaz479

“Faith is expectancy. “According to your faith, be it done unto you.” We might say, according to your expectancies be it done unto you; so, what are you expecting? We hear people say: “We expect the worst to happen,” or “The worst is yet to come.” They are deliberately inviting the worst to come. We hear others say: “I expect a change for the better.” They are inviting better conditions into their lives. Change your expectancies and you change your conditions.

How can you change your expectancies, when you have formed the habit of expecting loss, lack or failure? Begin to act as if you EXPECTED success, happiness and abundance; PREPARE FOR YOUR GOOD. DO something to show you expect it to come. Active faith alone will impress the subconscious.”

Florence Scovel Shinn, in “The Secret Door to Success”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 by David Simon in THE TEN COMMITMENTS

Posted on January 15, 2008 by jmaz479

“Think about a time in your past when you experienced a loss. It may have been the loss of a relationship, a job or money in an investment that caused you emotional pain. Consider your life now and you will probably be aware that the loss, which at the time seemed devastating, allowed for new opportunities to emerge. Had the loss not occurred, the love or abundance you subsequently experienced would not have been possible…It is often easier to recognize retrospectively how accepting rather than resisting what arrives is the best attitude. Developing the inner attitude of “Thy will be done” is worth the practice.”

David Simon, in “The Ten Commitments”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 by Paramahansa Yogananda in THE LAW OF SUCCESS

Posted on January 14, 2008 by jmaz479

“Even failures should act as stimulants to your will power and to your material and spiritual growth. When you have failed in any project, it is helpful to analyze every factor in the situation in order to eliminate all chances in the future that you might repeat the same errors.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. The bludgeon of circumstances may bruise you, but keep your head erect. Always try once more, no matter how many times you have failed. Fight when you think that you can fight no longer, or when you think that you have already done your best, or until your efforts are crowned with success.

The successful person may have had more serious difficulties to contend with than one who has failed, but the former trains him/herself to reject the thought of failure at all times. You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self-realization the purpose of your life will have been gloriously fulfilled.”

Paramahansa Yogananda, in “The Law of Success”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 14th, 2008 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Posted on January 13, 2008 by jmaz479

“Your positive thoughts and beliefs can make a contribution to others. As you believe that you create your own reality and take responsibility for your life, your telepathic broadcast of this goes out to others. Your thoughts that you create your own reality are assisting others in knowing this and taking control of their own lives. Your beliefs and positive pictures are added to the collective pool of consciousness and are then available for others to tap into as they grow.

Thoughts held in common by masses of people determine the way your world works. As more and more people understand that you create your own reality, many major changes will occur in your society. Understanding that the way you think affects the world you experience around you will create many positive changes in your society.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 11th, 2008 by Paul Ferrini in THE SILENCE OF THE HEART

Posted on January 10, 2008 by jmaz479

“As long as there are judgments being made, there will be shame in the world. Shame is the belief that what is false is true. It is the upside down perception of the world. Shame says, “I am bad.” This is not true and can never be true. Yet you believe it, and you project that belief on all your brothers and sisters. Every time you make a judgment of another human being, you are re-enforcing your own shame.

Peace will not come to the world until it comes into your own heart. And it cannot come into your heart as long as you see enemies or “evil” people outside of you. Every evil you perceive in the world points to an unforgiving place in your own heart that is calling out for healing. Stop judging others. Stop the game of blame. See every judgment for what it is: an attack against yourself, an attack against God’s son, a deepening of your own shame.”

Paul Ferrini, in “The Silence of the Heart”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by Caroline Myss in WHY PEOPLE DON’T HEAL AND HOW THEY CAN

Posted on January 9, 2008 by jmaz479

“Our drug-filled society maintains that most physically and psychologically painful conditions should be medicated away. Television commercials support the use of painkilling remedies for headaches, backaches, and every other symptom imaginable. Undeniably, chronic pain is a serious handicap to living a full life, and it makes maintaining a positive attitude enormously difficult. Yet emotional and psychological pain can also be a signal to pay attention.

It can be a teacher, whether it originates in our emotions or in our physical bodies. It directs our attention to the physical or emotional area that is begging for repair. Drugging pain prematurely or too much can be a mistake, because it can mislead us into thinking that we are healing when we are not. Instead of immediately medicating ourselves in every instance, we should examine why we have pain or a pattern of physical aches and pains.”

Caroline Myss, in “Why People Don’t Heal And How They Can”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in PULLING YOUR OWN STRINGS

Posted on January 8, 2008 by jmaz479

“You teach others how to treat you on the basis of what you will tolerate. If you simply “take it,” and you have been for a long time, then you have sent out the message you will not resist abuse.

This is not a very complicated theory. If you send out the message that you simply won’t tolerate abuse, and back it up with effective behavior, your abusers will not receive the payoff they are looking for, which is to see you immobilized so they can manipulate you. But if you just take their string-pulling, or register mild objections and then go right on being controlled, you are teaching them to continue using you as a dumping ground.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Pulling Your Own Strings”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 by Diane K. Osbon in REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF LIVING: A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION

Posted on January 7, 2008 by jmaz479

“The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, “Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.” And so it starts.

The call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness and find the jewel, the center that’s impossible to find when you’re socially engaged. You are thrown off-center, and when you feel off-center, it’s time to go. This is the departure when the hero feels something has been lost and goes to find it. You are to cross the threshold into new life. It’s a dangerous adventure, because you are moving out of the sphere of the knowledge of you and your community.

When one thinks of some reason for not going, or has fear and remains in society because it’s safe, the results are radically different from what happens when one follows the call. If you refuse to go, then you are someone else’s servant. When this refusal of the call happens, there is a kind of drying up, a sense of life lost. Everything in you knows that a required adventure has been refused. Anxieties build up. What you have refused to experience in a positive way, you will experience in a negative way.”

Joseph Campbell, in Diane K. Osbon’s “Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 7th, 2008 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY

Posted on January 6, 2008 by jmaz479

“I have found it helpful to begin and end each day with forgiveness—giving up resentment toward anyone and everything that stirred my emotions in a negative way. And that would include politicians religious zealots, columnists, talks show hosts on radio, the author of a particular book, a family member, my computer, a careless driver on the freeway, the planetary energies, the weather, the whole crazy world for not being what I want it to be—and above all myself. And I frequently remind myself of times past when things seemed to be “out of kilter” and were remedied through the simple act of forgiveness…When we give up annoyance, aggravation, and irritation it is dissolved and the powerful process of the natural order of things immediately swings into action to reveal harmony.”

John Randolph Price, in “Living a Life of Joy”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 4th 2008 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on January 3, 2008 by jmaz479

“To cultivate this awareness of the wonder that you really are, begin right now to acknowledge the miracle that your body is, and the extraordinary activities it performs on a daily basis. For example, make best efforts each day to take a couple of minutes out of your busy schedule to silently thank your body for digesting your food and for removing toxins and waste. In addition, at the end of each day, take some time to express gratitude to your heart for keeping you alive another day, and likewise to all of your other organs, tissues, muscles, bones and joints for their collective efforts on your part.

As you continue with this practice, what you will likely experience is that no matter what the status of your health, you will notice a definite improvement in the way you feel on a physical level.”

Jeff Maziarek in “Spirituality Simplified”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 by Stuart Wilde in LIFE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE A STRUGGLE

Posted on January 2, 2008 by jmaz479

“Do you remember being told as a child that if you wanted to make it in life you would have to work hard? That life involves pain and struggle; that you’d have to earn love and acceptance; and that, if you wanted to come out on top, you’d have to put in an incredible effort? I certainly remember my mother saying to me, “Struggle enobles the soul.”

But there is a big difference between struggle and effort. Our physical condition as humans involves effort, but struggle is effort laced with emotion and desperation. Now, if over a period of years, you’ve laid down several hundred thousand thoughts in your subconscious that say “Life is a struggle,” naturally you would project that from your inner feelings. Even if you weren’t consciously aware of that aspect of your inner self, the thought would still lie deep within you and show up constantly in your life.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 by Neale Donald Walsch in FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

Posted on January 1, 2008 by jmaz479

“Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon, or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself.

Freedom is not the goal of the human soul, but its very nature. By nature the soul is free. Lack of freedom is, therefore, a violation of the very nature of the soul. In truly enlightened societies, freedom is not recognized as a right, but as a fact. It is something that is, rather than something that is given.

Freedom is not granted, but rather, taken for granted.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “Friendship with God”

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