BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 1st, 2022 by Stephen Covey in THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

“If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work our basic paradigms.

In the words of Thoreau, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.”

Stephen Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

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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, March 31st, 2022 by Caroline Myss in ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT

“We are simultaneously matter and spirit. In order to understand ourselves and be healthy in both body and spirit, we have to understand how matter and spirit interact, what draws the spirit or life-force out of our bodies, and how we can retrieve our spirits from the false gods of fear, anger, and attachments to the past.

Every attachment we hold on to out of fear commands a circuit of our spirit to leave our energy field and, to use a biblical phrase, ‘breathe life onto earth’ – earth that costs us health. What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. The power that fuels our bodies, our minds, and our hearts does not originate in our DNA. Rather, it has roots in Divinity itself. The truth is as simple and eternal as that.”

Caroline Myss, in “Anatomy of the Spirit”

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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, March 30th, 2022 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED

“The reality is that all individuals are simply doing the best they know how to do at any particular time, given the level of their awareness of spiritual principles. People are usually so focused on their own life that they are, for the most part, unaware of what anyone else is experiencing at the time. For this reason, it is vital that you learn not to take things personally, for other people live in their own dream, in their own mind, and therefore are in a completely different world than the one in which you live.”

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, March 29th, 2022 by Donald Altman in ONE MINUTE MINDFULNESS

“How do you feel about the work that you do each day? Do you appreciate all that work provides you, or do you wish you were somewhere else doing something else? Do you find ways to appreciate others, or do you feel like an outsider who doesn’t fit in? Are you frustrated all day long because your efforts are underpaid and unacknowledged, or do you focus on giving the best of yourself?

I am not recommending that you resign yourself to a job in which you are unappreciated or overwhelmed. By all means, seek out something more meaningful. But in the meantime, experiment with adopting a grateful perspective to see how it changes your experience. This choice is within your control, and since you’re already at work, do you really want to add a burden of bitterness and suffering to your experience?

Donald Altman, in “One Minute Mindfulness”

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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, March 28th, 2022 by Deepak Chopra in THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS

“When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or situation, but to your feelings about the person or situation. These are YOUR feelings, and your feelings are not someone else’s fault. When you recognize and understand this completely, you are ready to take responsibility for how you feel and to change it. And if you can accept things as they are, you are ready to take responsibility for your situation and for all the events you see as problems.”

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

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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, March 25th, 2022 by Dan Millman in WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR

“As a child, everything you would see or experience was an enriching experience. Now, you’ve learned names and categories for everything. “That’s good, that’s bad, that’s a table, that’s a chair, that’s a dog, that’s a house,” etc. Now, you don’t take time to be truly aware of the things around you.

You now see everything through a veil of associations about things, projected over a direct, simple awareness. You’ve “seen it all before;” it’s like watching a movie for the twentieth time. You see only memories of things, so you become bored. Boredom, you see, is fundamental non-awareness of life; boredom, is awareness, trapped in the mind. You’ll have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.”

Dan Millman, in “Way of the Peaceful Warrior”

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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, March 24th, 2022 by Elaine Smitha in SCREWING MOTHER NATURE FOR PROFIT

“If you hate your job, look for another. Life is too short to spend it being miserable, because your body and its health will suffer. Since cells eavesdrop on all your conversations, spoken aloud or not, it is easy to understand why unhappiness breeds sickness. You are taking care of more than one life within you. Trillions of cells depend on you, as if they were your children. In a way, they are your children, and as heirs to the title of lineage, the have a vested interest.

If you’re concerned about your health, identify your limits. If stress is the biggest block to your success, you may want to find interests with lower demands. Turn your ear to mellow instrumental music that plays well in the background and does not ask for your participation. It helps to reduce your stress in situations that by their very nature tax the system.”

Elaine Smitha, in “Screwing Mother Nature for Profit”

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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, March 23rd, 2022 by Leo F. Buscaglia, in LOVING EACH OTHER

“We need courage to meet what comes and know that whatever it is, it will not last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not pain, not joy, not even life. We need to accept the fact that the only way anything will ever be accomplished exactly as we want it, is if we do it. So if we choose to delegate, then it is natural that the results will vary in some way from what we intended and we must learn to accept it. If we have enough strength to take full responsibility for our failures as well as our successes, then our self-respect is nurtured and grows. When we join others for mutual strength and support we will have to develop the courage of coexistence.”

Leo F. Buscaglia, in “Loving Each Other”

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“The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.”

Charles Dubois

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, March 22nd, 2022 by Baba Hari Dass

“The essence of my teaching is to understand ourselves. We best go about this goal by first realizing that the outer world is nothing more than a projection of our inner lives. We create it by our egos, our attachments, and our desires. If something appears bad or wrong in the world, its cause is inside us, not in the outer world. If we can truly understand this cause and effect, then we can let go of egos, attachments, and desires, thus setting the stage to experience God’s love.”

Baba Hari Dass, in an essay entitled “God is Peace”

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”

Seneca

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, March 21st, 2022 by Dr. Joseph Murphy, in THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

“Give no one in the world the power to deflect you from your goal, your aim in life, which is to express your hidden talents to the world, to serve humanity, and to reveal more and more of God’s wisdom, truth, and beauty to all people in the world. Remain true to your ideal. Know definitely and absolutely that whatever contributes to your peace, happiness, and fulfillment must of necessity bless all people who walk the earth. The harmony of the part is the harmony of the whole, for the whole is in the part, and the part is in the whole.”

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

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“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”

Henry David Thoreau, in “Walden”

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, March 18th, 2022 by Walter E. Jacobson M.D. in FORGIVE TO WIN

Compiler’s note: Today marks the 23rd anniversary for “Ponder on This.” While I rarely post new content anymore [just ran out of gas in all sincerity :)], it’s my hope that the re-posted messages are providing value for you. FYI, most of the messages for this year were originally posted in 2011, and, some may have been used a second time as well.

“The only way to truly forgive ourselves is to forgive others. Here’s how it works: When we judge people, we believe our judgments are related to who we think they are or what we think they’ve done. On one level, there is truth to this. On a deeper, unconscious level, however, our judgments of others have nothing to do with what we think of them, but are actually related to what we think of ourselves.

This process is called projection. It is an unconscious defense mechanism that enables us to avoid experiencing our own guilt by seeing other people as the guilty ones. By projecting onto others what we don’t like about ourselves and seeing them as having negative qualities, not us, we end up feeling good about ourselves, despite having done nothing to eliminate the guilt, shame, and self-loathing that is embedded in our unconscious mind.

It’s all still there. We haven’t gotten rid of it. We’ve just swept it under the rug, so to speak. Out of sight, out of mind, so to speak.”

Walter E. Jacobson, M.D., in “Forgive to Win”

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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, March 17th, 2022 by Chin-Ning Chu in THICK FACE, BLACK HEART

“All good things come to those who strive with patience: our sense of self-limitation did not form overnight. Thus, we require patience to readjust our course. A good phrase from the ancient Chinese elucidates this point; “Dripping water, in time, will cut a hole through the stone.” When we were infants, like bees we were in tune with our natural instincts – we heard only the pure voice from our Divine Maker.

As we learned the way of men, we adopted their “guidance” and tuned out the voice of our Maker. Whenever we are willing to listen to the criticism of others, there is never a shortage of volunteers. With self-determination and self-effort, no one can keep you from manifesting your true destiny. The mystery of a towering fruit tree lies dormant within a tiny seed.”

Chin-Ning Chu, in “Thick Face, Black Heart”

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“The Divine guidance often comes when the horizon is the blackest.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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, March 16th, 2022 by Grant Connolly in ALLOWING HAPPINESS ON CUE

“We say to ourselves, “I want to have the money to buy the things that will make my life easier.” We hear ourselves ask for this and then when it doesn’t promptly show up we say that God has forsaken us or that He doesn’t exist or that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work. However, when we ask for something, we’re not listening to what we’re really asking for, and it goes something like this. “I want to have the money to buy the things to make my life easier,” and if you listen closely you’ll hear a big BUT tacked onto the end of our request.

“I want the money, BUT I’d need to work a few extra hours to get it, or, the government would only take most of it in tax anyway, or, I just never seem to get what I want.” It always feels good to think about having extra money, but there always seems to be an under-thought that finishes our sentences with a big but, and those thoughts never feel good when we think them. When we ask for anything we’re sending a signal to the Universe that says, “Give me this!” Our desire for anything is a call to the Universe that says, “Hey Universe, this is what I want” and the Universe says, “Where shall I put it?”

Blocked desire on the other hand says “I really want this, but.” The Universe, always our faithful provider says, “Your wish is my command,” and gives you the but of your desire. The but is whatever it is that follows the original request. You literally get that. Buts negate that part of the request that you really want.”

Grant Connolly, in “Allowing Happiness On Cue”

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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, March 15th, 2022 by Shakti Gawain in LIVING IN THE LIGHT

“One important step in learning to hear and follow your intuition is simply to practice “checking in” regularly. At least twice a day, and much more often if possible, (once an hour is great), take a moment or two (or longer, if you can) to relax and listen to your gut feelings.

Cultivate this habit of talking to your inner self. Ask for help and guidance when you need it and practice listening for answers which may come in many forms: words, images, feelings, or even through being led to some external source such as a book, a friend, a teacher, who will tell you just what you need to know. Your body is a tremendous helper in learning to follow your inner voice. Whenever it is pain or discomfort, it is usually an indication that you have ignored your feelings. Use it as a signal to tune in and ask what you need to be aware of.”

Shakti Gawain, in “Living in the Light”

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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, March 14th, 2022 by Emmet Fox in YOUR HEART’S DESIRE

“People work so hard to bring health to their bodies; to bring prosperity, to bring happiness, to bring success into their lives; to bring artistic or literary gifts or talents within their grasp, to bring great new ideas from the outside; and of course, they continually fail, because we cannot “bring” a single one of these things from the without to the within.

The actual development is just the very reverse – they have to be released from the within that they may appear on the without. In short, we have not to build on from the outside; our task, as Browning says, is ‘to set free the imprisoned splendor’.”

Emmet Fox, in “Your Heart’s Desire”

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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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