BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on January 17, 2023 by jmaz479

“An attachment to maintaining or improving one’s physical appearance will always lead to anxiety and disappointment, for the simple reason that the human body is constantly in a state of change. Despite this obvious fact, each year millions of people spend literally billions of dollars worldwide in an effort to either obtain or preserve a more youthful and attractive physical appearance.

To clarify, I am not referring to a fundamental caring for the body through exercise, proper diet, and grooming, or cosmetic surgeries required as a result of illnesses, accidents, or other traumas. I am referring to those nonessential medical procedures: (i.e., face lifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, breast implants, and so on) that are designed to improve body appearance as a means of enhancing self-esteem. The key problem with these types of procedures is that they are grounded in the premise that our external packaging is who we are…

What you really are is a divine spark of God, an eternal being who inhabits a particular physical body for a finite period of time. You are therefore a spiritual being having a human experience, and your body is the means for both experiencing this planet and expressing yourself. So while you must never forget that your body is a miraculous creation that deserves proper care and respect, also remember to avoid becoming attached to its appearance. Your continually changing body is merely a container that houses the real you—your Spirit.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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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, January 17th, 2023 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE

Posted on January 16, 2023 by jmaz479

“Just imagine if you really have free will, which is the power to make your own choices. Do you really choose to sabotage your own happiness or your own love? Do you choose to judge yourself, to blame yourself, to live your life in shame and in guilt? Do you choose to believe that you are bad, that you are not beautiful, that you don’t deserve to be happy or healthy or prosperous because you are not worth it? Do you choose to constantly fight with the people you love the most? If you have free will, you choose the opposite. I think it is obvious that our will is not free.

When you put your faith in truth instead of in lies, your choices change. When your will is free, your choices come from your integrity, not from the program, that liar in your head. Now you believe whatever you want to believe, and when you have the power to believe whatever you want, something very interesting happens. What you want is to love. You don’t want anything else but love because you know that what is not love is not the truth!”

Don Miguel Ruiz, in “The Voice of Knowledge”

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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 Monday, January 16th, 2023 by Gary Spinell in BEYOND INTENT

Posted on January 15, 2023 by jmaz479

“We are not the best judges of when we are ready to receive and reach our goal. Here’s the key ingredient on how to assure you obtain your goal, and why most people do not achieve their goal:

Regardless of how much physical, mental, and emotional energy you put toward your goal, you must be willing to live another day if you do not achieve your goal. Too often people will say and believe that nothing else is more important in their life but to achieve their goal. When we put that much pressure on the Universe and ourselves to succeed, we stifle all other possibilities of what we can achieve and obtain in our life.

I am not saying that you should not target and point toward success. However, if you believe that you have failed and life is not worth living if you do not achieve your goal, you’ve set yourself up for failure. Your sense of urgency will produce enormous negative energy. And when you see that you might not be any closer today as compared to yesterday, although you may not say it out loud, internally you hear the clock ticking.

You may begin to internalize how you are living another day without your goal. From there you will believe that you are not happy in your present mode because your goal is not fulfilled. All of this action sends a massive amount of negative energy into the Universe, which complies by giving you more of the same result, which is keeping you in a state of waiting and escalating impatience.”

Gary Spinell, in “Beyond Intent”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 13th, 2023 by Laura Alden Kamm in INTUITIVE WELLNESS

Posted on January 12, 2023 by jmaz479

“Here is a simple way to release mind chatter. You can do this practice alone or with a partner. Take ten minutes out of your day and sit and just let your thoughts roll from your mind and out of your mouth. Whatever thought comes to your mind, speak it. Let the thought that sits behind or connects to the previous thought rise up and be spoken also. One after another the thoughts will come rolling off your tongue. It doesn’t matter if they seem connected or not; just let them roll – no judgment, no self-counseling (if you are doing this by yourself), no fixing, or stopping – just let go of your thoughts.

The power of release comes in the vocalization of the thoughts, so speak them boldly. Lift up your voice, intone, and release your emotions. Let your thoughts and voice join to let go of the chattering that fills your mind. After this practice, you’ll feel relieved and refreshed. Do it regularly to avoid mental buildup.”

Laura Alden Kamm, in “Intuitive Wellness”

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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, January 12th, 2023 by Nan Yielding in THINGS I NEVER LEARNED IN SUNDAY SCHOOL

Posted on January 11, 2023 by jmaz479

“For over two thousand years, Christians have seen Jesus through the eyes of the gospel writers, believing they were disciples of Jesus and eyewitnesses to the events they described. Many may be surprised, as I was, to learn this is not the case. Nearly all modern biblical scholars agree the gospels were written several decades after Jesus’ death by unknown authors, none of which knew Jesus personally or were present at any of the events they described. Not only is this evidenced by the number of discrepancies in the various accounts, but even the author of Luke writes the information he recorded was “handed on” to him (Luke 1:2).

Furthermore, following tradition, the writers did not write historical facts; they wrote stories about Jesus – much as a fiction author would do today – based on hearsay that spread after his death. They even copied content from other manuscripts that were in circulation. In other words, the gospels were created from received information, filtered and modified by imaginative writers.

According to E.P. Sanders and others, the goal was not to provide a biography of Jesus, but rather to express and reinforce a faith-based perspective of this man who walked the dusty roads of Palestine. As C.H. Dodd puts it, each gospel was “a report of certain happenings, together with, and inseparably interwoven with, an interpretation of these happenings.” Yet centuries of Christians have taken these accounts at face value and experienced little difficulty in explaining away inconsistencies.”

Nan Yielding, in “Things I Never Learned in Sunday School”

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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 Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on January 10, 2023 by jmaz479

“The past only has an impact on the present when you continue to waste your powerful thought and feeling energies on something that no longer exists at all, other than in your own mind. Whatever it was that happened is finished now, and no matter how uncomfortable it was for you, you need to come to the understanding that at some level you chose it, and that it helped to build your character and make you a stronger individual.

Whenever you do find yourself wondering why something turned out the way it did, I suggest calling to mind the old adage that often times “God does work in mysterious ways.” The truth is, you really don’t know the “big picture.” So, even though you might be inclined to feel sad about a certain event in your past, make the decision to accept the realization that there is a higher order to things, and that something good will eventually come of it.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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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, January 10th, 2023 by Richard A. Singer in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

Posted on January 9, 2023 by jmaz479

“A vast amount of human beings destroy precious moments throughout their lives due to unnecessary worry. The important thing to realize is the fact that worry does absolutely nothing productive for the past, present, or future. Why continue to do something over and over again that is completely unproductive and actually quite unhealthy. Would you walk out of your house and begin digging a hole without a purpose or a reason for doing so? Continuing to dig and dig after blisters form on your hands and your energy is being depleted for no apparent reason? Hours, days, and months go by and you continue to dig with no productive or logical reasoning. Hopefully, you would not do this, so why do you continue to worry?”

Richard A. Singer, in “Your Daily Walk With the Great Minds”

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BONUS PONDER on THIS by Theresa Crabtree in MAYAN MESSAGES: DAILY GUIDE TO SELF-EMPOWERMENT

“See all people as perfect, knowing they make their choices dependent on their current belief codes. It is not your place to judge or criticize them. Know that each of you has everything within yourself to break these codes and to live a life full of wonder, excitement, peace and joy.”

Reverend Theresa Crabtree in “Mayan Messages: Daily Guide to Self-Empowerment”

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 Monday, January 9th, 2023 by Rev. Christian Sorenson in GRATITUDE, A WAY OF LIFE BY LOUISE HAY AND FRIENDS

Posted on January 8, 2023 by jmaz479

“Life is an abundant broadcasting system, just waiting for us to tune in to its infinite varieties. As we turn our attention to the positive side through praise and appreciation, we bring ourselves into harmony with this giving frequency. There seems to be a magnetic force that draws our awareness to the ever-present and expanding good.

It’s as if our conscious and subconscious work diligently to attract only those experiences that support our state of mind. Looking through the eyes of gratitude, we become a channel to bring forth more things to be grateful for. We are told to “be thankful for all things.” This includes bow ties, our body, and our daily breath. It’s easy to be grateful for the grand things in life, but to be appreciative for “all things” puts you in a powerful, harmonious place.”

Rev. Christian Sorenson, in an essay entitled “Looking Through the Eyes of Gratitude” in “Gratitude, A Way of Life” by Louise Hay and Friends

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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 Friday, January 6th, 2023 by Gary Spinell in IT WAS YOU, ALL ALONG

Posted on January 5, 2023 by jmaz479

“Many people make no attempt to move forward, thinking, “But what if I try and fail?” or “What if I try and end up losing everything?” Remember, you create it all of it. When you believe you have the power to create your world, and that creative power cannot be turned on and off but something you do with every breath, you will embrace knowing you create EVERYTHING in your world.

Success is rarely, if ever, accomplished in one attempt. Have you ever watched an infant attempt to take his/her first steps? She will pull herself up against something, holding on tightly to the sofa or chair, only to fall back down again. Does the child give up after a few tries? Stop and strongly consider that if we all gave up after a few tries, none of us would be walking and running today! This is no small accomplishment for the baby. In her world learning to walk is similar to us to obtaining as large of goal we can imagine.

The infant is relentless in her attempts and does not quit. Instead the infant – even one so young – figures out what went wrong, makes adjustments and tries again. Nowhere in the infant’s head is the idea of failure. At no time does the child consider she will never walk, how she will be viewed if she cannot walk, and how she will view herself if she cannot walk. None of these thoughts enter her mind. Only adults have these thoughts when approaching new goals.”

Gary Spinell, in “It Was You, All Along”

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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, January 5th, 2023 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Posted on January 4, 2023 by jmaz479

“Compassion is helping people understand what they are learning and empowering them to see the gifts in what they are experiencing. It is watching others go through their lessons the way they have chosen to experience them, knowing that though they may be suffering at the personality level, their suffering will help them give birth to a new, stronger self. Assist them by focusing on all the gifts their problems are offering them, such as teaching them about self-love, compassion, patience, inner strength, and other positive qualities.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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BEST of Bonus PONDER on THIS

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

 Rainer Maria Rilke

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 Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

Posted on January 3, 2023 by jmaz479

“Remember that every cause you initiate leads to an effect. So, when you give from the heart, you set energy into motion that must in turn find its way back to you in some form. I say in some form, because there is no telling how or when the effect may show up.

For example, let’s say you donate a sum of money to a cause that has inspired you in some way; this does not necessarily mean that you will receive the same amount or more in return. The positive energy you extended may instead come back to you as a new business or career opportunity that appears seemingly out of nowhere, or it may manifest for you as improved or continued good health, or as a breakthrough in a troubled relationship, etc.

Now you might say that this is not always true, as there are many instances in which people give but do not seem to receive anything positive in return. In some cases this may appear to be an accurate appraisal. However, more often than not, if you were able to look deeper into the motivation behind the giving, you would probably discover that their intent wasn’t quite as pure as one may have originally thought.

Specifically, when the giving is done with the objective of receiving something in return, or because the person feels like they have no other choice but to give, then the underlying motivation behind it is rooted in scarcity. Since the Universe always knows what our real intentions are (i.e., our true feelings), it is not surprising then that people who give from this frame of mind do not receive anything in return.”

Jeff Maziarek, in “Spirituality Simplified”

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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, January 3rd, 2023 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOUR SACRED SELF

Posted on January 2, 2023 by jmaz479

“To understand the concept of surrendering, you will not be able to rely on your ego. Ego never wants you to even consider surrendering. It would much rather you hang on to the belief that you must strive and cling to the familiar way. The more you stay with what you are accustomed to, the more you will hang on to the worries and stress that are of the physical world. This constant frenetic behavior keeps you occupied and unable to make the connection to the world of spirit and your sacred quest.

The notion of being attached to what happened to you in the past can be very deeply ingrained in you by your false self. You must learn to recognize ego’s attachment to the past when it uses this to keep you stuck in striving. Surrender the belief that your past is what is driving your present.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred 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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, January 2nd, 2023 by Annemarie Greenwood and Marissa Campbell in LIFE: LIVING IN FULFILLMENT EVERY DAY

Posted on January 1, 2023 by jmaz479

“Expectations are just labels we project into the future and they are…a recipe for disaster. When we tell ourselves, ‘Oh, it will be so good if this happens,’ the consequence of this type of thinking is that if it doesn’t happen, we will not feel good. And if it does happen, wonderful! We’ll be happy for a moment, until, of course, the next time life doesn’t live up to our expectations. Our expectations have us riding on the outside rime of the wheel, just reacting to life. When it’s good, we are up; when it’s bad, we are down. It’s as simple as that.

In order to find lasting happiness and fulfillment, we need to get off that crazy ride. We need to let go of expectations. When we can truly accept that concept, thereby releasing our need to control everyone and everything, we are finally able to relax and find some peace! What an awful lot of effort and energy it has taken all these years to try to control our lives. Let it go. See what happens. Have fun and just roll with it.”

Annemarie Greenwood and Marissa Campbell, in “LIFE: Living in Fulfillment Every Day”

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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 Friday, December 30th, 2022 by Stuart Wilde in SIXTH SENSE

Posted on December 29, 2022 by jmaz479

“If you are aiming for a distant goal and you want to direct your imagination to that, start by feeling yourself present at that future point in time. Enter into those circumstances – act them out. Allow your imagination to wander through the scene, so to speak, becoming a part of it. Enliven the picture and make it more real by imagining all your five senses present in those future circumstances. Grant the picture a sensuality that it would have if you were actually there, so give it its colors and sounds; and imagine the smell, texture, and tasted of those future circumstances. Then come back from that future place. Focus your inner vision and intellect on seeing yourself progress through the steps it might take to get you from here, today, to over there, tomorrow.

Act out the steps in your mind’s eye, and see yourself moving toward your goal through the intervening steps. You pull goals to you through concentration, while simultaneously moving toward them through concerted action. Remember, I’ve said many times before in my books that yearning for things pushes them away form you. In the emotion of yearning, you affirm that you don’t have the thing you’re yearning for. You set up an uncomfortable energy that others often have to climb over. When you really need something and you’re emotional about it,  people tend to deny you, just because you need it.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Sixth Sense”

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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 29th, 2022 by Deepak Chopra in HOW TO KNOW GOD

Posted on December 28, 2022 by jmaz479

“What’s the one thing you can do today to grow in Spirit? Stop defining yourself. Don’t accept any thought that begins “I am this or that.” You are not this or that. You are beyond definition, and therefore any attempt to say “I am X” is wrong. You are in passage. You are in the process of redefining yourself every day. Aid that process, and you cannot help but leap forward on the path.

If you take a clear look at yourself, you will find that your mind is more like a swarm of bees than like an arrow shooting straight for the goal. A swarm of bees can travel from point A to point B, just like an arrow, but it does so in a vague, swirling, fuzzy way. Thus we hold in our minds all kinds of shifting attitudes, many of which contradict each other. Our love is bound up with hatred, our trust with suspicion, our altruism with selfishness. Because this is so, the only clear path to God is a path of constant self-awareness. You must see through your own mask if you want to take it off.”

Deepak Chopra, in “How to Know God”

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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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