BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 25th, 2025 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

Posted on July 24, 2025 by jmaz479

“The final disappearance of insecurity feelings will only come when you have attained that blessed ability of the birds of the air and the flowers of the field to live fully in the present, one moment at a time. The present moment, no matter how painful, is never unbearable. What is unbearable is what you think is going to happen in five hours or five days; and those words you keep saying in your head, words like, “This is terrible, this is unbearable, how long is this going to last,” and so on.

Birds and flowers are blessed above humans in that they have no concept of the future, no words in their heads, and no anxiety about what their fellows think of them. That is why they are such perfect images of the kingdom. So do not be anxious about tomorrow, tomorrow will look after itself.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “The Way to Love”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 24th, 2025 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on July 23, 2025 by jmaz479

“We must release the old to make room for the new. A friend of mine was praying and praying for a bigger and better apartment which she needed for herself and her family. But she was not doing anything about it. One day she was evicted by her landlord, and she was forced to find another place. The place that she found was the one that she had been praying for all along! She could not receive it, however, until she gave up the old one.

It is only when we stop trying to hold onto the past that we are able to fully accept the blessings that the present can offer us.”

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

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 by Tama Kieves in A YEAR WITHOUT FEAR

Posted on July 22, 2025 by jmaz479

“Here’s how to take a risk. Decide it doesn’t have to “work out” immediately. It doesn’t have to lead to a preordained outcome. It doesn’t have to end up making a million dollars. It doesn’t even have to be “worth” a mention in the throwaway newsletter of your neighborhood. Follow the spur to do it. Enter the holy curriculum of listening to and learning about yourself. This commitment will lead, heal, and resurrect you. Allow yourself to be anointed. Remember, you risk more by denying yourself the chance to grow.”

Tama Kieves, in “A Year Without Fear”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY

Posted on July 21, 2025 by jmaz479

“To be willing to accept total responsibility for yourself puts you in a position of being worthy of receiving and attracting the object of your desires. If someone else is responsible for your perceived shortcomings, and you are blaming them for these troubles, then you are also saying that in order to manifest your heart’s desire you need to have the permission of those others. This act of abdicating responsibility destroys your ability to empower yourself to higher levels of awareness.

When you know that you are responsible for how you chose to react to every life situation, and that you are essentially alone within yourself at all moments, then you can privately put out into the universe that which you want to bring to yourself. However, blaming others for your life situations shifts the power to those you believe are responsible for creating the circumstances.”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “Manifest Your Destiny”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 21st, 2025 by Sara Chetkin in THE HEALING CURVE

Posted on July 20, 2025 by jmaz479

“St. John of the Cross wrote about life as a chess game you play with God, who is teaching you how to play. The game is designed to suite your particular style of learning and to help you become a master of the game. In other words, your life circumstances are your opportunities for awakening. However, when we feel hurt or ashamed, we usually lash out or run from the experience rather than embracing it as an opportunity for growth. The world is in divine order. You will keep encountering these opportunities. The more resistant we are to these lessons, the more difficult the experiences will be until we finally give up a little control, until we finally say “enough is enough!” Then, we can change things. It’s up to you how much you will endure until you reach this point.

And when you do, you can start exploring the beliefs you take for granted, the ones that you never thought to question. The vast majority of these beliefs cause suffering, but many of our ideas about life are so ingrained in the collective psyche that they seem totally logical, even necessary to our survival. Many of us believe we need our anger, worry, and fear to survive. You may have such a deep-seated and firm conviction about something that it becomes extremely difficult to recognize how deeply it impacts the quality of your life.

We’ve all heard it said: everything happens for a reason. But what we rarely realize is that, most of the time, WE are the reason. We find ourselves in this or that situation because of choices we have made.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 18th, 2025 by Dan Millman in LIVING ON PURPOSE

Posted on July 17, 2025 by jmaz479

“Many of us fear failure without realizing that we make little mistakes and tiny failures each day, in the process of living and learning. We drop things, we fail to find something we’re looking for, say or do something we could have done better.

We have also experienced larger, more noticeable mistakes or failures that seem to have bigger consequences. But how can we know for certain that these failures aren’t blessings in disguise, leading us to greater accomplishment?”

Dan Millman, in “Living on Purpose”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 17th, 2025 by Michael Tamura in YOU ARE THE ANSWER

Posted on July 16, 2025 by jmaz479

“When you find yourself judging others harshly, remember that your upset is not about them. It’s about you not being able to forgive and love yourself because you are holding that judgment inside of you. If in the past you were humiliated for being “stupid,” then you might create judgments against stupidity in order to cover your invalidation and loss of love for having been “stupid” yourself. You end up blaming “stupid” for your pain. Those who fit that same judgment of “stupid’ threaten to reopen you to the pain within YOU, so you chase them away by judging THEM. Let it be all right that someone once judged you, for it’s really that person’s problem to solve not yours. Those who create judgments must live with them and endure their consequences, not those who are the target of judgment.”

Michael J. Tamura, in “You Are the Answer”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

Posted on July 15, 2025 by jmaz479

“Whatever you tend to think about is what you will focus on, and create more of. For example, if you have some debts and some principal, and your entire focus is on what you have, then you will expand your principal. If your principal is only five hundred dollars and your debts are five thousand, and you focus on the money that you have, you will begin to do something with it. Whatever you do with it in a positive way will help it to expand.

Conversely, if you focus all of your thoughts on you indebtedness, always reminding yourself how poor you are, and making that the locus of your emotional life, that is precisely what you will expand. This is very clear when it comes to minor illnesses. If you focus on your cold, always talking about it, always complaining to everyone you meet about how lousy you feel, you will expand what you focus on. That is, your energy will flow to the cold that you are so proud of. But if you focus on all of you that is not sick, and tell others how great you feel, you will expand wellness.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer, in “You’ll See it When you Believe It”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Stuart Wilde in AFFIRMATIONS

Posted on July 14, 2025 by jmaz479

“Consistency means deciding what you want and holding on to your intention until your dream is met. You must be committed to your goal even though it seems a long way off. Imagine for a moment that you want to be an architect, but you do not have enough money to pay for your college tuition. Focus! You would support your intention greatly by buying books and visiting great architectural buildings and studying on your own in the library. You would be moving toward your goal even if you do not have the money at this time to materialize your dream. By concentrating on what is in front of you, rather than the total picture, you eventually get what you want.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 14th, 2025 by Eugenia Oganova in MISSION ALPHA

Posted on July 13, 2025 by jmaz479

“The belief in aging is a psychological ‘clock’ that translates into biology for a subscriber to that belief. The average human body clock programs cells to divide, diminish and die, therefore creating a limited lifespan. The human clock is based in chronology, in linear time. Lately, due to dimensional energies being more coherent and to increased awareness, time feels faster to us. From the Soul level, this brings greater emotional experience in every moment, but from an imbalanced human perspective it tends to speed up the clock.

In other words, lately it might feel like we are running out of time. This is one of the reasons for such an expansion of the cosmetic surgery industry and all sorts of ways of making the body look younger. On the social scale, there is urgency (and even a low-level panic) about getting old, and a resolve to do whatever is possible to stop it. But since the idea of the clock is based in victim consciousness, the clock cannot be stopped. It can only be discarded. The biology of aging is created by a belief, which is a conceptual level program.

A perfect blueprint of health contains another program, the one for cellular regeneration. But it is only accessible when social, genetic, and karmic patterns are not overriding our curiosity for life. Curiosity fuels cellular regeneration. The more curious we are, the more passion we have, the more desire to live, the more vitality and health, which in turn makes us younger.”

Eugenia Oganova, in “Mission Alpha”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 11th, 2025 by Marlo Morgan in MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER

Posted on July 10, 2025 by jmaz479

“In order to know your home, the earth, all its levels of life, and your relationship to everything seen and unseen, you must lead. It is fine to walk for a while as the last one in any group, and it is acceptable to spend some time mingling in the middle, but ultimately everyone must at some time lead. You have no way of understanding leadership roles until you assume that responsibility. Everyone must experience all of these roles at some time, without exception, sooner or later, if not in this lifetime, sometime! The only way to pass any test is to take the test. All tests on every level are always repeated one way or another until you pass.”

Marlo Morgan, in “Mutant Message Down Under”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 10th, 2025 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY

Posted on July 9, 2025 by jmaz479

“Be open to surprises and new things. Keep your heart open. Some of you experience a feeling of vulnerability or fear when you think of bringing new people or new things into your lives. What you call tension or anxiety before an event can be viewed instead as focusing your energy to prepare you for something new. It is a change in your vibration to prepare you for something that is finer and higher in your life. You may feel that you must first conquer fear and anxiety before you step out and accomplish something. But everyone has that inner feeling of tension to some degree before attempting new things; it is a period of gathering energy to make the shift into a higher vibration.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE

Posted on July 8, 2025 by jmaz479

“The average life expectancy in America is just about 77 years, give or take a few. That’s just over 28,000 days to figure out why you are here, what you are going to do about it, and how you want to live. And just so we are clear, the ground rule is this: life is not fair in any way, shape or form. You could be here one day and gone the next without any warning. You could do all the “right” things, like exercising, eating right, getting enough sleep, not smoking, and limiting your alcohol intake, and then get struck by lightning, run over by a bus, gored by a bull, or slip in the shower. Life begins in an instance and often ends the same way.

Our arrogance and ego keep us from staying in the moment. We look at the obituary page and cannot imagine our picture there – death is something that happens to someone else, no matter how many funerals we attend. We cannot imagine our own demise, which in turn keeps us from experiencing life to the fullest. Denial is not just a river – it’s a state as well – one that most of us live in when it comes to understanding that we come in on time and leave on time, and that the in-between time is always the right time to make time for the people, places, and events that are really important.”

John St. Augustine, in “Living an Uncommon Life”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 by Stuart Wilde in THE QUICKENING

Posted on July 7, 2025 by jmaz479

“The power needed to accelerate you past your current state is great indeed and the more stripped of emotion you are, the less opinions you hold, the less rigidity you create, then the more your ability to break out of the gravitational grip of the “collective” consciousness is enhanced by the lightness of your load. You can’t be different and hold the same feelings as the mass of people.

To establish that difference you need to create an emotional barrier between yourself and the world. It is a psychic demarcation zone through which no emotion will pass. It becomes the buffer between you and life’s circumstances. This buffer is developed in several ways. First, you pull away from the desires and attachments that you have about your own life. You voice no opinion. You just accept reality as you find it, internalize it and own it even if you do not like it. This does not mean you cannot change things if you wish, it just means that the way things are, is the way they are, and you have to be able to accept that.

Any negative yearning that you have about your life serves only as an affirmation of weakness and locks you in. Nowadays, people insist that everything be perfect, safe, comfortable and convenient and so often life is not any of these. The Warrior-Sage accepts discomfort and pain and rides on, regardless. His life is not regulated by having to have this or that. He does not demand that conditions be perfect, or even to his/her liking. He learns to be stay centered whatever the circumstances. By not reacting to your surroundings and by ignoring the emotional gyrations of others, you empower yourself from within.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Quickening”

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 7th, 2025 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

Posted on July 6, 2025 by jmaz479

“When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do – and with it the quality of your life – increases dramatically. Joy is the dynamic aspect of Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself, it manifests as joy. You don’t have to wait for something “meaningful” to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The “waiting to start living” syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

Expansion and positive change on the outer level is much more like to come into your life if you can enjoy what you are doing already, instead of waiting for some change so that you can start enjoying what you do. Don’t ask your mind for permission to enjoy what you do. All you will get is plenty of reasons why you can’t enjoy it. “Not now,” the mind will say. “Can’t you see I’m busy? There’s no time. Maybe tomorrow you can start enjoying…”

That tomorrow will never come unless you being enjoying what you are doing now.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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