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Posted on November 25, 2018 by jmaz479

Jeff 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. It also 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, October 17th, 2025 by Eric Butterworth in DISCOVER THE POWER WITHIN YOU

Posted on October 16, 2025 by jmaz479

“No matter where you are or what you may be, no matter how much you have lost or how little you have gained, no matter how far you many think yourself to be from the heights you have set for yourself or feel that God has set for you, the power to BECOME is your divine inheritance. You can overcome, you can succeed, you can be healed – if you believe in your divinity, bless it, act as if it were the real and true of you and keep on in the effort to “open out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape.”

Eric Butterworth, in “Discover the Power Within You”

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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, October 16th, 2025 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS

Posted on October 15, 2025 by jmaz479

“This is something you must understand: YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS A TEACHING. Everything that you think, say, and do instructs another. Do you imagine that others do not know what you are thinking? Is it your idea that they are not listening to what you are saying? Are you hoping that they are not watching what you are doing?

Young people, especially, are eager to learn about life, and they learn the most about life from LIFE ITSELF. And they intuitively know this. That is why they observe so closely. Young people miss nothing. You think you are kidding them? Think again.

They see the fear. They see the anger. They see the hypocrisy. They see the saying of one thing and the doing of another. And yes, they even know pretty much of what you are thinking. More than you think they know.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “The New Revelations”

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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, October 15th, 2025 by Donald Altman in ONE MINUTE MINDFULNESS

Posted on October 14, 2025 by jmaz479

“The heart has a language all its own. To speak from the heart in the next minute is to communicate from a place of love, truth, and beauty. But for many, the heart may be hidden and locked away behind a wall. To reveal the heart and its desires can be scary, yet to live without giving voice to the heart is like being mute and lost in the darkness. Open the heart, and we find not only help for ourselves, but also the capacity to help others and share intimacy.

We would all do well to remember the one-minute mindfulness message that spiritual teacher Frank Coppieters shares when he writes, “Listen to what the heart has to say…it speaks in parables, songs, and visions. It gives you the courage to accomplish anything you desire. Such courage comes in spite of conditioning and can be experienced in this moment. Listen…the heart never lies.”

Have you listened to your heart lately?”

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 Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 by Michael Tamura in YOU ARE THE ANSWER

Posted on October 13, 2025 by jmaz479

“The school of life is one of experience and distilling what we learn from it into wisdom. Therefore, what is truly important in a soul’s education is not what we are born into – our heredity, gender, environment, religion, or socioeconomic status – or what happens to us in life. It is in HOW WE CHOOSE to respond to whatever happens in our life, in whatever condition we find ourselves, that we gain our immortal wisdom and everlasting freedom, and reveal the true worth of our soul.”

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

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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, October 13th, 2025 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET

Posted on October 12, 2025 by jmaz479

“You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the negative events of the world, you not only add to them, but you bring more negative things into your life at the same time. When the pictures have appeared of something you do not want, it is your cue to change your thinking and emit a new signal. If it is a world situation, you are not powerless. You have all the power. Focus on everybody being in joy. Focus on abundance of food. Give your powerful thoughts to what is wanted. You have the ability to give so much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well-being, despite what is happening around you.”

Rhonda Byrne, in “The Secret”

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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, October 10th, 2025 by Arnold Patent in YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Posted on October 9, 2025 by jmaz479

“Noticing the way the Universe functions and using It as a model leads us to conclude that the ideal state is freedom of movement. Air moves freely down rivers and streams. Waves roll freely onto beaches. The earth moves freely on its axis. So it is with the affairs of humans. Allowing things to flow freely in our lives gives us the maximum benefit from each experience.”

Arnold Patent, in “You Can Have It All”

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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, October 9th, 2025 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

Posted on October 8, 2025 by jmaz479

“Sometimes being very intellectual is a huge spiritual disadvantage. If you are very clever, you tend to dwell in the mind. It’s reasonable and pleasing to do so. It’s the same as if you’re very good at running – you may find yourself six hours a day on the track enjoying your abilities.

If you’re an intellectual person, your mental discipline is to ask yourself six times a day, “How does it feel?” “How does this taxi feel?” “How does this office feel?” “How does this cinema feel?” Look for the feeling. Bit by bit you can wrestle your subtle feelings into supporting you with their knowledge and ability so that your intellect is not dominating your life.

The intellect will suck to you ugly energy, personal criticism, and judgment; it will make you dissatisfied. You will have a triumph, and five minutes later the intellect will trash that triumph into nothing. It will show you all the things you missed out on. You made $20,000, but you could have made $24,000. The intellect likes to bitch and feel sorry for itself. If you don’t control it, it will drive you nuts.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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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, October 8th, 2025 by Polly Campbell in IMPERFECT SPIRITUALITY

Posted on October 7, 2025 by jmaz479

“We lie to ourselves all the time. It’s our way of denying and resisting, and sometimes protecting ourselves. But it’s not an effective way. These lies are simply part of the illusion we create to buffer ourselves against our fears or insecurities. We use them to mask our imperfections so that perhaps we won’t be discovered for who we really are – a flawed human being. But get this: who you are when you stand in your truth is always more powerful that the lies you create to hide it. Those lies always stunt our growth and keep us from living authentically.”

Polly Campbell, in “Imperfect Spirituality”

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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, October 7th, 2025 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS

Posted on October 6, 2025 by jmaz479

“Neale Donald Walsch: What are the beliefs that we have about God that create crisis, violence, killing, and war?

God: First, you believe that God “needs” something. Second, you believe that God “can fail” to get what He needs. Third, you believe that God “has separated” you from Him because you have not given Him what He needs. Fourth, you believe that God still needs what he needs so badly that God now”requires” you, “from your separated position,” to give it to Him. Fifth, you believe that God “will destroy you” if you do not meet His requirements.

These Five Fallacies About God have brought more pain and destruction to your day-to-day existence than all of your other beliefs combined.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “The New Revelations”

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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, October 6th, 2025 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT

Posted on October 5, 2025 by jmaz479

“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world. Almost all of our conflicts are based on this, and it’s easy to understand why. Assumptions are nothing more than lies that we are telling ourselves. This creates a big drama for nothing, because we don’t really know if something is true or not. Making assumptions is just looking for drama when there’s no drama happening. And if drama is happening in someone else’s story, so what? It’s not your story; it’s someone else’s story.

Be aware that almost everything you tell yourself is an assumption. If you’re a parent you know how easy it is to make assumptions about your children. It’s midnight, and your daughter isn’t home yet. She went out to dance, and you thought she’d be home by now. You start imagining the worst; you start making assumptions: “Oh, what if something happened to her? Maybe I should call the police.” There are so many things you can imagine, and you create a whole drama of possibilities in your head. Ten minutes later your daughter arrives home with a big smile. When the truth arrives and all the lies are dispelled, you realize that you were simply torturing yourself for nothing. Don’t make assumptions.”

Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz, in “The Fifth Agreement”

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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, October 3rd, 2025 by Dr. Stephen Russell in BAREFOOT DOCTOR’S GUIDE TO THE TAO

Posted on October 2, 2025 by jmaz479

“Waiting patiently for something good to occur is not a passive activity. Waiting patiently is an active state. With the full knowledge and faith that what’s for you won’t pass you by, and by breathing, relaxing, and going with the spontaneous impulses that arise from within, you actively engage with the world, relishing every moment as it occurs, until in the fullness of time, that good thing you’ve been patiently waiting for will present itself in full manifest from before your very eyes.

You haven’t wasted a single moment of your precious time here wishing it to be different. Patience means wishing everything to be exactly as it is, knowing full well, in the meantime, that according to the immutable law of yin and yang, things will change of themselves anyway and, if your original intention was clearly focused, they’ll change along lines appropriate to your best interests.”

Stephen Russell, in “Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the TAO”

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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, October 2nd, 2025 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOUR SACRED SELF

Posted on October 1, 2025 by jmaz479

“God indeed works in mysterious ways. That which we judge to be unfortunate and evil can teach us our greatest lessons. The thief who cons you out of your money could represent a divine lesson teaching you to let go and not be attached to your things. The drug pusher may be teaching you how to experience addiction and down-in-the-gutter depression so that you will transcend this reliance on external substances for your highs in life.

All people, and I do mean ALL, are in your life to teach you valuable lessons. Don’t ignore those lessons. Get the message and bless them, and move on. When you ignore them, or simply dismiss them as evil, you fail to understand the truth. Emerson knew: Truly, the “whole course of things goes to teach us faith.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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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, October 1st, 2025 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

Posted on September 30, 2025 by jmaz479

“With only a few seconds of focusing your attention on a subject, you activate the vibration of that subject within you, and immediately the Law of Attraction begins to respond to that activation. The longer you keep your attention focused on something, the easier it becomes for you to continue to focus upon it because you are attracting, through the Law of Attraction, other thoughts or vibrations that are the essence of the thought you began with.

Within 17 seconds of focusing on something, a matching vibration becomes activated. And now, as that focus becomes stronger and the vibration becomes clearer, the Law of Attraction will bring to you more thoughts that match. At that point, the vibration will not have much attraction power, but if you maintain your focus longer, the power of the vibration will become further-reaching. And if you manage to stay purely focused upon any thought for as little as 68 seconds, the vibration is powerful enough that its manifestation begins.”

Esther and Jerry Hicks, in “Ask and It Is Given”

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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, September 30th, 2025 by Michael Tamura in YOU ARE THE ANSWER

Posted on September 29, 2025 by jmaz479

“Life provides us with our next step. But if we’re wrapped up in expectations of what we “should” be doing, where we “should” be by now, as well as the judgments of how bad we are for not fulfilling those expectations, then we can’t discover the purpose, meaning and value of what we are doing and where we are right now. Just as water naturally flows downstream, we naturally gravitate toward what we need to do next, but our expectations and judgments get in our way of doing that.

Anytime you find yourself in a “should’ or “shouldn’t” situation or any variation of them (“supposed to,” “ought to,” etc.), you are caught in an expectation and out of touch with the present reality. Take a breath and relax. Ask yourself, “What is the purpose, meaning or value of where I am and what I am doing right now?” Step out of the expectations and return to the present. “That’s where you’ll find meaning – never in the past or future.”

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

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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, September 29th, 2025 by Stuart Wilde in SIXTH SENSE

Posted on September 28, 2025 by jmaz479

“Deal fairly and equitably with everyone as best as you can, and set appropriate boundaries so others don’t use you. But always try to offer a generosity of spirit. Turn a soft eye upon your brothers and sisters, and see them in the same context as you would see yourself – infinite, that is. Offer them compassion, hard as that might be at times. Understand that they are often weak, but they are learning, as we all are, to become infinite and angelic in our perspective of self. It may take a while, but in the end we’re all on a winding path back to God – we never left our infinite state, and we’re still in that infinite dimension of goodness even though our physical bodies are here on Earth.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Sixth Sense”

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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