“An ancient teaching says, “The world is a teacher to the wise man and an enemy to the fool.” No event is painful in and of itself. It’s all a matter of perspective. It’s important to understand that everything happening in the world is as it should be every moment. There are no mistakes. There are no accidents. The world is a heavenly sky and a bottomless pit. When we understand that we cannot have one without the other, it becomes easier to accept the world as it is.”

Debbie Ford, in “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers”

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“Watch out for anyone who says, “I have so much love to give and no one to give it to.” Immediately translate that into, “I am the emotional black hole of the universe, and I will suck every ounce of life force from you if you let me.”

Elaine Boosler

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. 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.

“If you want to know what you truly believe, if you want to really get in touch with the belief systems that are, I almost want to say running your life, look at what you’re resisting. And most importantly, look what at what you’re resisting changing. There’s no mystery there; we resist what we don’t want to let go of, and what we don’t want to let go of is what we truly believe. So, this isn’t a mysterious construction; it’s stating the obvious. And yet, sometimes it’s the most obvious thing that we ignore, and don’t really take a look at.

So I always tell people when I see them mightily resisting any suggestion, any change, any idea, any concept, look to see if that might be a very deeply held truth within you…that which you are resisting changing. And then look to see whether holding on to that truth as you are, with such white knuckles, is really serving you. Really take a close look at whether that truth serves you. It’s amazing how few of our deeply held truths actually serve us. It’s remarkable.”

Neale Donald Walsch In “Abundance and Right Livelihood”

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“Coming from compassion means coming from truth. How often do you rehearse in your mind what you are going to say to someone because you are justifying yourself, coming from ego, talking about how great you are, or how right you are? Every time you find yourself mentally rehearsing a situation (as all of you do, over and over) ask, “Can I come from a deeper level of truth?” You can always find one way in which to be more loving, understanding and compassionate.

Finding your deepest truth means looking within. It means not blaming other people, not playing the victim and not spending time feeling sorry for yourself. When you look more deeply at any situation, you can always see that you set it up for your growth. In any situation you feel you were a victim you always had an inkling of what was going on, and ignored opportunities to change things.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Personal Power through Awareness”

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“If you do not value who and what you are, you will seek to borrow worth from the outer world. You will look for validation from people whom you believe know or have more than you. But since everything you need is inside you and no one can know more about your path and purpose than you do, any power you ascribe to external authorities must eventually explode in your face and leave you feeling worse than when you started. The question is not, “Have you given your power away?” The question is, “How can you get it back?”

Unsucking your life is an inside job. You do not need to import power, for you were born with it; you just need to plug the holes in your bucket through which it is leaking. The quest is about peeling away the lies and illusions you have been told – and went on to tell yourself – that have kept you living smaller than you deserve. When you do, you will be amazed to realize how much you have settled for. Then you will have little patience for halfhearted living and reclaim your right to live from choice rather than default.”

Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks…And What You Can Do About It

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“Money is merely a form of energy/chi. A measure of money equates to a measure of chi. There is nothing intrinsically wrong or right about money. It is merely an energy-measuring device, hence why it’s called currency, i.e., current, literally, that which runs/flows (like water)…Money is not the root of all evil. It cannot be; it’s only an idea we’ve all agreed to believe in. It has no intrinsic value of its own. It’s a myth. Money is merely a harmless measuring device we use to expedited energy exchange between individuals and groups, which otherwise would become too unwieldy to manage, owing to the high numbers of people interacting.

Greed is the root of all evil. Greed arises from the mistaken belief or fear that there exists a fundamental shortage of energy/chi, the limited supply of which is depleted every time you give it away. Hence, for you to gain, someone else has to lose. Whereas, in reality, the more energy/chi you use, the more you generate. In basic terms, the more money you have the more you’ll be circulating.”

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

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