PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 14th, 2007 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE

Posted on December 13, 2007 by jmaz479

“It always feels like we’re protecting ourselves when we’re wrapped in the ego’s energies. Yet in fact, the ego is our weakness and not our strength. When we act defensive or arrogant or willful, no one will think us strong; quite the opposite. It can feel like we’re exposed and vulnerable when we stand defenseless and empty before God, yet when we do is when we appear centered and in our power. Our ability to be transparent, to become an empty space through which God’s love can flow, is our spiritual strength. When the ego disappears, we are hardly invisible; we’re illumined. People can’t take their eyes off a person who has removed his or her mask. Childlike serenity replaces childish posturing. We are gentle yet strong. The light within shines through.”

Marianne Williamson, in “The Gift of Change”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 13th, 2007 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on December 12, 2007 by jmaz479

“The way to expand your wealth and get on top of things is to cut out the non-vital ego expenses and to discipline yourself to stay inside whatever money you do have. The main secret to abundance comes from the emotional balance and stability you project when you are in control. If you are harassed or worried about money, the insecurity you emit goes out to others as an insecure subliminal signal. It destroys your ability to earn more.

The secret to having enormous amounts of wealth is not to NEED it. Then it comes to you naturally. When you are desperate and trying to force things to happen, money hops up the road in front of you, tantalizingly just out of reach most of the time. So the trick is to spend less than you earn. Then you can make more money and get as rich as you like, and you’ll never have problems.”

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, December 12th, 2007 by Joseph Murphy in THE AMAZING LAWS OF COSMIC MIND POWER

Posted on December 11, 2007 by jmaz479

“When you are perplexed, confused, and fearful, and wonder what decision to make, remember that you have an inner guide that will lead and direct you in all your ways, revealing to you the perfect plan, and showing you the way you should go. The secret of guidance or right action is to mentally devote yourself to the right answer until you find its response within you.

The infinite intelligence deep in your subconscious mind is responsive to your request. This response you will recognize as an inner feeling, an awareness, an overpowering hunch leading you to the right place at the right time, putting the right words into your mouth, and causing you to do the right thing in the right way.”

Joseph Murphy, in “The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power”

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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, December 11th, 2007 by Catherine Ponder in OPEN YOUR MIND TO PROSPERITY

Posted on December 10, 2007 by jmaz479

“The world of nature knows about Divine timing. I recently saw a science film which described the life of certain plants that bloom in the desert. The film explained that these plants blossomed in that desert climate only when conditions were just right. The plants would often wait for years for the right conditions before they blossomed. Like the plant in the desert, awaiting the right conditions in which to blossom, we sometimes have to await just the right time in our soul growth to enjoy our expanded good. Meanwhile, by meeting our present circumstances non-resistantly, we may be developing certain soul qualities and talents which will prepare us for that time.

During such periods, no matter how much we persist in dwelling on increased health, wealth or happiness, our good may not appear, because we are not yet ready to receive it and maintain it. If we receive it during such a period, it would be premature, forced growth, and would not last. Under such circumstances, we may find our good coming more slowly under Divine timing. But later we will realize that it came at just the right time for our long-range benefit.”

Catherine Ponder, in “Open Your Mind to Prosperity”

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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, December 10th, 2007 by Wayne W. Dyer in WISDOM OF THE AGES

Posted on December 9, 2007 by jmaz479

“The moment you begin to tell others about what you desire and how you are going to create the kind of life you know is your personal destiny, you invite ego. As you begin explaining your radical ideas you will be asked to defend yourself. Then you will feel the need to argue about how this fits or fails to fit into the perception of those you are talking to. And most debilitating of all, you will be expected to listen to the logic of those you choose to share your dreams with as they tell you to ‘get real’ and look around at the circumstances of your life. Once the ego becomes involved, you literally lose the ability to create what your heart tells you is your destiny.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Wisdom of the Ages”

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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, December 7th, 2007 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

Posted on December 6, 2007 by jmaz479

“Money is just one form of compensation for service. There are many ways the universe will thank and take care of you in appreciation for the gifts you share. Do not evaluate your compensation by dollars alone. You may be getting paid in ways far more precious than money.

Many people make vast amounts of money but suffer terrible psychological and emotional ills because they are disconnected from their spirit. If all you are receiving for your work is money, you are being grossly underpaid. Others make little or no money, but sleep well at night, with a heart fulfilled. While money and satisfaction are certainly not mutually exclusive, true reward goes far beyond money.”

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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 6th, 2007 by Tara Singh in NOTHING REAL CAN BE THREATENED

Posted on December 5, 2007 by jmaz479

“The only reality is in the living moment. Since we are not with the reality of the living moment, we project a ‘tomorrow’. Once we have projected a tomorrow, there is fear. Please see this because it is fundamental. Fear is always of tomorrow; you can never be afraid in the present. Fear is always of a “rainy day” sometime in the future. “What if somebody found out?” Or, “What if this or that happens?” But if you didn’t project a tomorrow, you would never know fear and you would be capable of coping with anything.”

Tara Singh, in “Nothing Real Can be Threatened”

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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, December 5th, 2007 by Sharon Salzberg in THE FORCE OF KINDNESS

Posted on December 4, 2007 by jmaz479

“The world may tell us to grab as much as we want, and we might think that the audacity of rebelliousness is to grab even more with impunity, but how about being really radical and questioning how much we need? Conventional wisdom may be that retribution displays strength and can summarily bring an end to conflicts, but how about taking a leap and challenging ourselves to a whole new meaning of resolution based on mutuality and caring?

The easy way may be to turn away and distract ourselves from the distress and suffering of others, but how about being daring enough to pay attention? Our conditioning may tell us we don’t need anybody, but how about taking a real look at life and noticing that we are all entwined in a fabric of interdependence, then being willing to risk acting accordingly?”

Sharon Salzberg, in “The Force of Kindness”

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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, December 4th, 2007 by Fr. Anthony DeMello S.J. in AWARENESS

Posted on December 3, 2007 by jmaz479

“The most difficult thing is the world is to listen, to see. We don’t want to see. Do you think a rich person wants to look at a poor person? We don’t want to look, because if we do, we may change. If you look, you lose control of the life that you are so precariously holding together.

And so in order to wake up, the one thing you need most is not energy, or strength, or youthfulness, or even great intelligence. The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new. The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away. How much are you ready to take? How much of everything you’ve held dear are you ready to have shattered without running away? How ready are you to think of something unfamiliar?”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Awareness” 

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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, December 3rd 2007 by Sanaya Roman in PERSONAL POWER THROUGH AWARENESS

Posted on December 2, 2007 by jmaz479

“When your feel hurt and separated from another person, thinking he or she caused you pain or unhappiness, it may be time to examine what lessons you have chosen to learn by creating the situation. When you love people, there are times you feel pain and distance from them. If this happens, do not look for intellectual reasons. Do not try to discover who has hurt whom and who is to blame and who is in the right. It rarely does any good to argue back and forth, figuring out who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. This puts you into a power struggle with each other and takes you out of your heart connection.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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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, November 30th, 2007 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC

Posted on November 29, 2007 by jmaz479

“When you are living on purpose, giving of yourself in a blissful way, your personality will reflect that bliss. You will manifest the necessary talent and intellect to fulfill your purpose. It will not require a struggle or a detailed worksheet of goals and objectives. Your ability to manifest changes in your own personhood is already intact. You are not going to acquire intelligence, talent, skills and confidence from outside of yourself. These are components that already reside within you. What you want to do is shift to a purposeful state, a state in which you feel inspired and significant. When this is your state of mind, then all that you need in the way of personality characteristics will surface.”

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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, November 29th, 2007 by Shakti Gawain, in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION

Posted on November 28, 2007 by jmaz479

“Whatever we don’t like, whatever we reject, whatever we try to get away from or get rid of, will haunt us. It will bug us. It will follow us around and fly right in our face. It will pursue us in our dreams. It will cause problems in our life through our relationships, our health, our finances, until we are willing and able to confront it, recognize it, and embrace it as part of ourself. Once we do that, it’s no longer a problem. It’s no longer a big deal. It no longer runs our life. We begin to have an increasingly larger range of choices and possibilities.”

Shakti Gawain, in “The Path of Transformation”

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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, November 28th, 2007 by Karol K. Truman in FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE

Posted on November 27, 2007 by jmaz479

“Give yourself permission—allow yourself to feel whatever feelings you may feel. These feelings are much easier to change if you accept and own them rather than deny them and pretend they don’t exist. When you feel negative feelings it does NOT make you a bad person! Who in the world can go through life without feeling negativity some of the time? I doubt that it’s possible—even if you were on a desert island by yourself. Developing a consciousness of what you are feeling and thinking, then striving to overcome your destructive negative feelings and thoughts is part of the challenge of this life.”

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

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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, November 27th, 2007 by Robert H. and Jeanette C. Lauer in WATERSHEDS

Posted on November 26, 2007 by jmaz479

“There is an old story about a man who wrote to the department of agriculture in his state to find out how to cope with the crabgrass that was spoiling his lawn. The department responded with a number of suggestions. The man tried them all, but he could not completely eliminate the crabgrass. Exasperated, he wrote the department again, noting that every method they had suggested had failed. His yard was still riddled with crabgrass. He got back a short reply, “We suggest you learn to love it.”

That is the art of re-framing, redefining something so that it is no longer as problematic. It isn’t the situation that has changed, of course; it is your perspective on the situation.”

Robert H. and Jeanette C. Lauer, in “Watersheds”

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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, November 26th, 2007 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on November 25, 2007 by jmaz479

“Learning to see God in all requires effort, creativity, courage, and love. Our old thought patterns of lack and failure will kick and scream, and they will find the subtlest and craftiest ways to retain their hold on our consciousness, for in truth, their very life is being threatened. And that is the very best thing that could happen to us, for their life is founded on erroneous thinking and illusion. To break out of this old way of thinking, we must at first make a determined effort to deny the ranting and raving of our old mind which tells us that something is wrong. When negative thought patterns assert themselves, we must challenge them with the light of Love, and dare to live the truth of goodness. Many people believe that it is courageous to live through a negative life. I believe that to live a life dedicated to happiness, freedom and forgiveness is the most courageous of all.”

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

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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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