BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 25th, 2022 by John Randolph Price in THE ABUNDANCE BOOK

“Money is an effect. When you concentrate on the effect, you are forgetting the cause, and when you forget the cause, the effect begins to diminish. When you focus your attention on GETTING money, you are actually shutting off your supply. You must begin this very moment to cease believing that money is your substance, your supply, your support, your security or your safety. Money is not, but God is! When you understand and realize this Truth, the supply flows uninterrupted into perfect and abundant manifestation. You must look to God alone as THE Source, and take your mind completely off the outer effect.

If you look to your job, your employer, your spouse or your investments as the source of your supply, you are cutting off the real Source. In fact, if you look to any human person, place or condition for your supply, you are shutting down the flow. If you give power to any mortal as even being the channel for your supply, you are limiting your good.”

John Randolph Price, in “The Abundance Book”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 by Paramahansa Yogananda in THE LAW OF SUCCESS

“Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things, people, and conditions. Good habits of thought enable you to attract benefits and opportunities. Bad habits of thought attract you to materially-minded persons and to unfavorable environments.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda, in “The Law of Success”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

“U.S. money still has “In God We Trust” printed on it, both paper bills and coins. Read this every time you use this form of money to remind yourself of where your prosperity, power, and security come from. Working for God makes us rich spiritually and materially and also happy, because we are human beings, souls with feeling bodies, not cold inert machines. Soul satisfaction is generated in the process of contribution, in helping others to be happy, healthy, and prosperous. When money and power are our motivators, then we will exploit people in order to benefit ourselves, instead of working for their welfare. The secret of a successful business and a happy life is service – giving of our talents, abilities, and whatever else we have produced that will help others and contribute to their well-being.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 22nd, 2022 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS

“Ignorance and fear, ignorance caused by fear, that’s where all the evil comes from, that’s where your violence comes from. The person who is truly nonviolent, who is incapable of violence, is the person who is fearless. It’s only when you’re afraid that you become angry.

Think of the last time you were angry. Go ahead. Think of the last time you were angry and search for the fear behind it. What were you afraid of losing? What were you afraid would be taken from you? That’s where the anger comes from. Think of an angry person, maybe someone you’re afraid of. Can you see how frightened he or she really is? He or she is really frightened, or they wouldn’t be angry. Ultimately, there are only two things, love and fear.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 19th, 2022 by Megan Don in MEDITATIONS WITH TERESA OF AVILA

“Sometimes, Teresa said, the Beloved allows certain circumstances, even perhaps painful ones, that we would not willingly choose so that we may learn and grow. Surrender is the key word, easy to say, but far more difficult to live. We wrestle with the Beloved at every moment that we resist what is happening in our lives. For Teresa, surrender was a lifelong project; at no point should we become discouraged. Even when we fall back into our own will, the Beloved can also use this for our benefit.

Who are we to give advice to the divine? God already knows our needs and is waiting anxiously to meet them. The ego, however, will take us on many detours, and we will expend a lot of energy as we try to make things happen in accordance with our desires. By aligning our will to our inner Beloved-self, we can travel much more quickly and easily to a life of fulfillment.”

Megan Don, in “Meditations with Teresa of Avila”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 18th, 2022 by Deepak Chopra in THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS

“The more you give, the more you will receive, because you will keep the abundance of the Universe circulating in your life. In fact, anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. That which doesn’t multiply through giving is neither worth giving nor worth receiving. If, through the act of giving, you feel you have lost something, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase. If you give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving.

It is the intention behind your giving and receiving that is the most important thing. The intention should always be to create happiness for the giver and receiver, because happiness is life-supporting and life-sustaining and therefore generates increase. The return is directly proportional to the giving when it is unconditional and from the heart. That is why the act of giving has to be joyful – the frame of mind has to be one in which you feel joy in the very ACT of giving. Then the energy behind the giving increases many times over.”

Deepak Chopra, in “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday August 17th, 2022 by Ralph Waldo Emerson in SELF-RELIANCE

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the “personhood” of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his/her bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and the culture of the eater.

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man/woman, must be a nonconformist. He/she who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in “Self-Reliance”

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BONUS BEST of PONDER on THIS by Henry David Thoreau in WALDEN

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone that they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”

Henry David Thoreau, in “Walden”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 by Lisa Nichols in THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne

“The law of attraction is really obedient. When you think of the things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your intention, then the law of attraction will give you exactly what you want, every time. When you focus on the thing that you don’t want – “I don’t want to be late, I don’t want to be late” – the law of attraction doesn’t hear that you don’t want it. It manifests the things you’re thinking of, and so it’s going to show up over and over and over again. The law of attraction is not biased to wants or don’t wants. When you focus on something, no matter what it happens to be, you really are calling that into existence.”

Lisa Nichols, quoted in “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 15th, 2022 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS

“The great Socrates said, “The unaware life is not worth living.” That’s a self-evident truth. Most people don’t live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts – generally somebody else’s – mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. Do you want to see how mechanical you really are? “My, that’s a lovely shirt you’re wearing.” You feel good hearing that. For a shirt for heaven’s sake!”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 12th, 2022 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in GETTING INTO THE VORTEX

The person who comes right now will be a match to the essence of the person you are right now. When you are feeling misunderstood or lonely or unloved, you cannot find a mate who will offer anything different to you. If you have predominantly been noticing the absence of a wonderful relationship, the presence of a wonderful relationship cannot occur. Not right now.

If you are seeking a joyful relationship, you must become joyful first. Asking for a relationship to make you joyful is a backward approach. If you are seeking a satisfying relationship, you must become satisfied first. If you are seeking a relationship full of fun and great timing and excitement, you must become full of fun and great timing and excitement, first.

How you feel equals who-you-are. And who-you-are equals everything that comes to you. The powerful Law of Attraction insists on that.”

Esther and Jerry Hicks, in “Getting Into the Vortex”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 11th, 2022 by Alice O. Howell in THE DOVE IN THE STONE

“Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.”

Alice O. Howell, in “The Dove in the Stone”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 by Neale Donald Walsch in FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

“A big ego is not the sign that one likes oneself, but just the opposite. If people “brag” and “show-off” a lot, it raises the question, what do they dislike about themselves so much that they feel they have to get others to like them to compensate?

It’s not that people don’t like themselves completely. It’s just that there’s a part of themselves they don’t like, and so the ego compensates by trying to get other people to like them. Of course, they don’t show the part of themselves they don’t like to others until the growing intimacy of a relationship makes it impossible not to. When they finally do, and when the other person acts surprised, and maybe even negatively, then they can assure themselves that they were right about this aspect of themselves being unlikable. It’s a very complex process, and you move through it every day.”

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

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 by Richard A. Singer, Jr. in YOUR DAILY WALK WITH THE GREAT MINDS

“Do not deceive yourself by believing you are “stuck” where you are at right now. You may wish to rationalize or justify this to others, however, it is important to realize that anything is possible with hard work and persistence. Never allow yourself to fall into the delusion of society when it tells you that you must stay in one profession for a lifetime. You have the freedom to move on and move up anytime you please. Fulfill your intrinsic needs and take part in the passionate excursion of your life.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 8th, 2022 by Robert Fulghum in MAYBE (MAYBE NOT)

“Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise.

If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.”

Robert Fulghum, in “Maybe (Maybe Not)”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 5th, 2022 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

“Be alert. Are some of the thoughts that go through your mind the internalized voice of your father or mother, saying perhaps something like, “You are not good enough. You will never amount to anything,” or some other judgment or mental position? If there is awareness within you, you will be able to recognize that voice in your head for what it is: an old thought, conditioned by the past. If there is awareness within you, you no longer need to believe in every thought you think. It’s an old thought, no more. Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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