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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: Shakti Gawain
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, March 21st, 2025 by Shakti Gawain in LIVING IN THE LIGHT
“What does it mean to trust your intuition? How do you do it? It means tuning in to your “gut” feelings about things – that deepest inner sense of personal truth – in any given situation, and acting upon them, … Continue reading
Posted in Intuition
Tagged Living in the Light, Shakti Gawain
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 27th, 2025 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“We must remember that trying to solve the world’s problems through a primarily external focus is not very effective. The world is full of people attempting to find solutions to community and planetary problems with little success and much struggle, … Continue reading
Posted in Ponder on This Daily Inspiration
Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 3rd, 2025 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“Healing crises are always uncomfortable and can often be terrifying and painful. It can feel as if our world is in danger of coming to an end. It can seem as if our lives are falling apart. We may see … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges and Obstacles, Healing
Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 19th, 2024 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“How DO we create real change in our personal lives and in the world? The simple answer to this question is this: We change the world most effectively by changing our own consciousness. There is a quote attributed to Mohandas … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, September 18th, 2024 by Shakti Gawain in LIVING IN THE LIGHT
“People frequently ask me how to differentiate the true voice or feelings of the intuition from all the others. Unfortunately, there’s no simple, sure-fire way at first. Most of us are in touch with our intuition, whether we know it … Continue reading
Posted in Intuition
Tagged Living in the Light, Shakti Gawain
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“Chances are that our higher purpose is already showing in our lives. It is usually there from the very beginning, expressing itself through who we are even as children. Whatever things we do naturally and easily, whatever our innate talents … Continue reading
Posted in Purpose
Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 by Shakti Gawain in CREATIVE VISUALIZATION
“One of the basic principles of holistic health is that we cannot separate our physical health from our emotional, mental, and spiritual states of being. All levels are interconnected and a state of “dis-ease” in the body is always a … Continue reading
Posted in Body and Health, Healing
Tagged Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 1st, 2023 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“To me, living consciously means accepting our human weaknesses and imperfections without judging ourselves harshly, and being willing to learn from our unconscious patterns of behavior once we become aware of them. It means looking at our experiences as gifts … Continue reading
Posted in Taking Responsibility
Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 25th, 2023 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“If you don’t feel that you are in touch with your higher purpose and you would like to be, ask your inner guidance to begin to bring you information, awareness, and clarity about it. Ask yourself what things you most … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 21st, 2023 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION
“Lasting change comes only when we get completely away from thinking that the core problem is “out there” somewhere, that our peace of mind can only be won by changing others. The kind of thinking that we must change in … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 26th, 2023 by Shakti Gawain in CREATIVE VISUALIZATION
“We can think of life as having three levels, and we can call those levels “beingness,” “doingness,” and “havingness.” Beingness is the basic experience of being alive and conscious. It is the experience we have in deep meditation, the experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 16th, 2023 by Shakti Gawain in LIVING IN THE LIGHT
“When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. This leads to feelings of helplessness, emptiness, a sense of being a victim; eventually to anger … Continue reading
Posted in Intuition
Tagged Living in the Light, Shakti Gawain
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 14th, 2022 by Shakti Gawain in CREATIVE VISUALIZATION
“We each have an infinite supply of love and happiness within us. We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain
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