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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.
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. With that message you create mainly the story of you, and then a story about everything you … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“The truth is that all knowledge 100 percent of it, is nothing more than symbolism or words that we invent for the need to understand and express what we perceive. Every word in our mind and on this page is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Now it’s easy to understand why there is so much conflict between humans. The world is populated by billions of dreamers who aren’t aware that people are living in their own world, dreaming their own dream. From the point of … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know. We don’t care whether the knowledge is true or not. Truth or fiction, we believe … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“You don’t need to compete with anybody; you don’t need to compare yourself with anybody. You just need to be what you are, to be love, but real love, not the kind of love that possessed you and makes you … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Can you see all the judgments that you have about yourself? Every judgment is just an opinion – it’s just a point of view – and that point of view wasn’t there when you were born. Everything you think about … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, February 25th, 2022 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“You are here to enjoy life. You are not here to suffer over your drama or your personal importance. It’s not you, it doesn’t belong to your presence. You are here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 20th, 2021 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
Be impeccable with your word really means never use the power of the word against yourself. When you’re impeccable with your word, you never betray yourself. You never use the word to gossip about yourself or to spread emotional poison … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 14th, 2021 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Once you accept yourself just the way you are, you no longer have any judgments about yourself. Once you accept everybody else just the way they are, you no longer have any judgments about them. Then something incredible happens in … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“As children, we invest our faith in almost everything that we learn, and this is how we lose power over our own lives. By the time we grow up, our faith is already invested in so many lies that we … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, April 30th, 2021 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Have you ever noticed that since you arrived in this world, you’ve always been delivering a message? Even before you were born, when you mother became aware that she was pregnant, your message was there. Your parents couldn’t hardly wait … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 17th, 2020 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“What kind of messenger are you? Are you a messenger of gossip and lies? Do you feel comfortable with all the lies, with all the gossip, with all the drama that comes as a result of believing in lies? Is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 8th, 2020 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Many masters have said that every mind is a world, and it’s true. The world we think we see outside of us is actually inside of us. It’s just images in our imagination. It’s a dream. We are dreaming constantly, … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Is it the real you who creates all the drama and suffering in your daily life? Is it the real you who says “Life is a valley of tears, and we come here to suffer?” Is it the real you … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 6th, 2020 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Humans are the only animals on earth who punish themselves a thousand times or more for the same mistake, and who punish everybody else a thousand times or more for the same mistake. How can we talk about injustice in … Continue reading