PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 by Stephen Russell in BAREFOOT DOCTOR’S GUIDE TO THE TAO

“You have an intention for something to occur. You visualize that eventuality with concentrated focus, imbued with a portion of passion and chi, and then you let it go, like sending an E-mail. You picture what you want to say and the effect that it will have on the recipient, then you write it and press send. At that point you do not try to follow it down the phone line to your local server and onward to the server at the other end, you simply let it go and get on with the next distraction in your life.

In time, your intention will go to the heart of the universal machinery and return to you in manifest form. Meanwhile you have wasted no energy on trying to make it happen, you’ve simply intended something and then let it go…When this doesn’t seem to work, it’s either because your intention wasn’t clearly focused enough, or because what you thought you wanted was in fact too limited in the greater scheme of things, and something even better’s coming down the line.”

Stephen Russell, in “Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the TAO”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Sanaya Roman in PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

“Knowing who you are requires reflective time, quiet time. Time alone is some of the most important time you can create. I am not speaking of time in which you are frantically thinking of something, but peaceful time in which you are not thinking of anything. The stillness of the mind creates space for ideas to come into your reality and be born. Inspiration is born in stillness. It may be a week or more before a new idea comes into you conscious awareness. But do not let the time delay keep you from seeing the connection between quiet time and the creativity that comes later.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 6th, 2007 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

“Recognizing the origins of stress from a spiritual perspective, we find a key to dismantling the thoughts that produce it. Stress is simply the inevitable consequence of thinking the unreal is real. In that sense, stress is a choice.

If an issue is “of the world,” then attaching to it our sense of success or failure, satisfaction or lack of satisfaction, is a setup. Nothing in the world can give us a deeper peace because the spirit is not at home in the world. To the extent that our sense of well-being is tied in any way to the things of the material world, we will be prone to worry and anxiety.

Yet we almost feel we have to stress when there’s so much to do, so much that can happen, so much to consider all the time! That, however, is the joke: the only reason things seem to press upon us so heavily is because we think they are so heavy.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 3rd, 2007 by Karol K. Truman in FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE

“To deny feelings doesn’t mean they are dead or no longer exist, that the energies of those feelings are no longer present in your energy field. On the contrary, if feelings are not resolved, their energy remains stored inside you, and, like a yeast, this energy continues growing and expanding, gathering more and more energy—resonating and joining forces with all similar feeling vibrations that are still inside your body. These energies create blocks like a dam in a ditch of water and short-circuit your system in more ways than you can imagine. If the feelings remain unresolved, this process continues to compound, and you could experience any number of disturbing effects. When you recognize these disturbing effects, be aware that alterations are now in order.”

Karol K. Truman, in “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 by Stuart Wilde in THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE

“Don’t engage in idle chatter and thoughtless remarks. If you say, “This situation is a nightmare,” you invoke terrible spirits to visit you at night. If you say it’s dreadful, you establish fear and dread in your life. If you say something is a pain in the butt…be prepared for a hemorrhoid attack. Don’t moan, and don’t allow doubt and disquiet to diminish your life and its power. If you are worried about something, keep it to yourself and don’t vocalize it as fact, for that solidifies it. Work instead on the solution. Voice that solution as fact. Everything can be changed.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Little Money Bible”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“Why, then, do so many people simply accept the idea of a judgmental God? There are probably dozens of reasons, but in the end it ultimately comes down to the fact that someone told them to adopt this view of God. The reality is until we each begin the quest to discover our own personal truths, we are all just a collection of beliefs that were handed down to us by those whose beliefs were, in essentially all instances, handed down to them as well.

To paraphrase the late Fr. Tony DeMello, most of our core beliefs are typically not our own anyway; they actually belong to Mom or Dad, Grandma or Grandpa, or some other adult that had a major impact on us when we were children. This is not to suggest that beliefs cannot change over time, because they surely can, but it does imply that it is very difficult to identify a core belief that comes from any original thought of our own.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 30th, 2007 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

“Despite all the questions raised by our meandering minds, we are in the right place, doing exactly what we need to be doing, at exactly the right time. Because life is a school, we are always in the class that we have chosen to learn the lessons we need to master. Sometimes it is fun, and sometimes we have to work at it a bit, but it is always appropriate.

I was speaking to a woman who was struggling with questions about the direction she should take in her life. When I shared with her my enthusiasm about the perfection of the right of consciousness, she looked at me with a combination of surprise and relief, and asked, “You mean I’m in my right place?” I chuckled and responded, “Where else could you be?”

Alan Cohen, in “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 27th, 2007 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW

“Be present as the watcher of your mind—of your thoughts and emotions as well as you reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don’t judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don’t make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “The Power of Now”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 26th, 2007 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

“Learn to act as if the life you visualize were already here. Act as if that which you perceive in your mind were already here in the physical world. Begin treating your thoughts and visions as much more than simple amorphous meanderings of your mind. You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, your intentions create your reality. Consequently, you must begin the practice of ignoring your own doubt about the importance of your inner world and start the practice of acting as if the images you desire were already your reality. This may sound like self-deception, but it is the only way I know for you to get past the limitations you believe you have.”

 Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Real Magic”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 1

Neale Donald Walsch: What is hell?

God: It is the experience of the worst possible outcome of your choices, decisions, and creations. It is the natural consequence of any thought which denies Me, or says no to Who You Are in relationship to Me.

It is the pain you suffer through wrong thinking…Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less. That is hell, and there is none greater for your soul.

But hell does not exist as this place you have fantasized, where you burn in some everlasting fire, or exist in some everlasting torment. What purpose could I have in that?…

I tell you there is no such experience after death as you have constructed in your fear-based methodologies. Yet there is an experience of the soul so unhappy, so incomplete, so less than whole, so separated from God’s greatest joy, that to your soul this would be hell. But I tell you I do not send you there, nor do I cause this experience to be visited upon you. You, yourself, create this experience.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Conversations with God, Book 1”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by Richard Carlson PH.D., in DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF

“One of the most unavoidable life lessons is having to deal with the disapproval of others. Praise and blame are all the same is a fancy way of reminding yourself of the old cliché that you’ll never be able to please all the people all the time. Even in a landslide election victory in which a candidate secures 55 percent of the vote, he or she is left with 45 percent of the population that wishes someone else were the winner. Pretty humbling, isn’t it?

Our approval rating from family, friends, and the people we work with isn’t likely to be much higher. The truth is, everyone has their own set of ideas with which to evaluate life, and our ideas don’t always match those of other people. For some reason, however, most of us struggle against this inevitable fact. We get angry, hurt, or otherwise frustrated when people reject our ideas, tell us no, or give us some other form of disapproval.

The sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will become.”

Richard Carlson, PH.D., in “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”

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PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

“True humility is the absence of false pride. It is complete authenticity. Strange as it seems, the more humble you become, the more potential for power you actually have. (The more the waterwheel allows the river to flow through it, the more power it transmits.)

Humility is allowing the God within to express what you are to the world, rather than making that assertion yourself. While it may seem to be a powerless state, there is unlimited potential in true humility—great power in genuine authenticity—because you are not limiting yourself to your worldly assets. You are, instead, tapping into the rich resources that are your gifts from God.”

Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 20th, 2007 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

“There is a basic rhythm to the Universe. We can notice it only when we are quiet enough to listen. Each of us has a rhythm that is in natural harmony with the universal rhythm. All of us together have rhythms that are in harmony with each other and with the Universe. We have to be quiet to hear and feel these rhythms. Life is so simple when we hear, feel, and follow them. There is a rhythm to our walk, to our speech, to our eating, to our playing golf, tennis and swimming. There is a rhythm to our relating to others.

The infinite intelligence of the Universe is behind these rhythms. As we become more and more sensitive to them, we pick up the natural guidance that is there for us, at all times.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 19th, 2007 by Alanis Morissette in EXCUSES

“Why, no one will help me, I’m too dumb, I’m too smart,
They’ll not understand me, I’m lonely, they’ll hate me
There’s not enough time, it’s too hard to help me
God wants me to work, no resting, no lazy
These excuses, how they’ve served me so well
They’ve kept me safe, they’ve kept me stuck
They’ve kept me locked in my own cell…
These excuses, how they’re so familiar
They’ve kept me blocked, they’ve kept me small
They’ve kept me safe inside my shell
Bringing these into the Light shakes their foundation and clears my sight,
Now, my imagination is the only thing that limits the bar and its rise to the heights.”

Alanis Morissette, in the song “Excuses”, from the CD “So Called Chaos”

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PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 by Deepak Chopra in THE WAY OF THE WIZARD

“Ego is “I”; it is your singular point of view. In innocence this point of view is pure, like a clear lens. But without innocence the ego’s focus is extremely distorting. If you think you know something—including yourself—you are actually seeing your own judgments and labels. The simplest words we use to describe each other—such as friend, family, stranger—are loaded with judgments. The enormous gulf in meaning between friend and stranger, for example, is filled with interpretations. A friend is treated one way, an enemy another. Even if we do not bring these judgments to the surface, they cloud our vision like dust obscuring a lens.”

Deepak Chopra, in “The Way of the Wizard”

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