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Jeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi's Journey, available in both print and eBook formats, launched Pondercentral.com in May 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.
Selected from a vast library of spiritual growth books, the messages are currently received by hundreds of people all over the world. Please note that in addition to Pondercentral.com, Jeff occasionally posts to his Spirituality Simplified blog. To contact Jeff via email please click here.
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Tag Archives: Eckhart Tolle
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 17th, 2018 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you experiment with this from time to time. For example, when someone criticizes you, blames you, or … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 4th, 2018 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment—the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your … Continue reading
Posted in Present Moment Awareness
Tagged Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 16th, 2018 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“The greater part of most people’s thinking is involuntary. automatic, and repetitive. It is no more than a kind of mental static and fulfills no real purpose. Strictly speaking, you don’t think: Thinking happens to you. The statement “I think” … Continue reading
Posted in Mind, Ponder on This Daily Inspiration
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 11th, 2018 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“The source of all abundance is not outside you. It is part of who you are. However, start by acknowledging and recognizing abundance without. See the fullness of life all around you. The warmth of the sun on your skin, … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“In life threatening emergency situations, the shift in consciousness from time to presence sometimes happens naturally. The personality that has a past and future momentarily recedes and is replaced by an intense conscious presence, very still but very alert at … Continue reading
Posted in Present Moment Awareness
Tagged Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“Humanity is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race. This will affect every aspect of your life and close relationships in particular. Never before have relationships been as problematic and conflict … Continue reading
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Tagged Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“The initiation of the awakening process is an act of grace. You cannot make it happen nor can you prepare yourself for it or accumulate credits toward it. There isn’t a tidy sequence of logical steps that leads toward it, … Continue reading
Posted in Ego, Ponder on This Daily Inspiration
Tagged A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“Be present as the watcher of your mind—of your thoughts and emotions as well as you reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice … Continue reading
Posted in Present Moment Awareness, Witnessing
Tagged Eckhart Tolle, Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now
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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 27th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“If there is truly nothing that you can do to change you’re here and now, and you can’t remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. The false, unhappy self that … Continue reading
Posted in Acceptance, Surrender
Tagged Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 14th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“If there is no joy, ease or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important … Continue reading
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Tagged Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 5th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“Complaining as well as fault-finding and reactivity strengthen the ego’s sense of boundary and separateness on which its survival depends. But they also strengthen the ego in another way by giving it a feeling of superiority on which it thrives. … Continue reading
Posted in Ego
Tagged A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“The pain that you create now is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 15th, 2016 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“Unless you stay present – and inhabiting your body is always an essential aspect of it – you will continue to be run by your mind. The script in your head that you learned a long time ago, the conditioning … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect. Your life … Continue reading
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