| Givingness..................2 | |
| following: life's basic abundance and generosity; its overwhelming givingness; humanity's similar and hence compatible attitude; self-possession; the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of life is its truly limitless fertility and givingness. It sprouts forth forever new and more varied | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Glandular...................8 | |
| no pronounced talent, or let us say, a glandular disturbance? ANSWER: A glandular disturbance is only an | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| let us say, a glandular disturbance? ANSWER: A glandular disturbance is only an effect, as you know | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| with the emergency. In such a moment, your glandular system releases a certain substance that shoots through | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| that is necessary to protect yourself. With the glandular reaction, however, you will develop more strength -- | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in a while. The substance released from your glandular system contains a certain poison which will not | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in psychological conflicts, for irrational, unrealistic reasons, your glandular system does not question the validity of the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the physical glands. Although the functioning of the glandular system is directly dependent on these centers, the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the centers can be detected only indirectly: The glandular system reflects them and is determined by them | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Glean.......................8 | |
| been and perhaps still are -- you may glean a momentary recognition of reality, of its totally | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| approach the door through which you may occasionally glean a sense of cosmic, spiritual, or absolute reality | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| this: the time will come when you will glean a new understanding about yourself from these words | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| open a little window from which you can glean a new perception. Now, are there any questions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and a positive attitude toward life. You will glean that what has refused to come to you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| be taken care of. You are beginning to glean some of this new freedom, although it is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way in your everyday life? Perhaps you will glean from the work on your path that every | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| your innermost potential to understand in order to glean what I mean. People usually assume that these | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Glib........................6 | |
| realization must not be confused with a quick, glib formulation of a part of the problem you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| such a No must not be a superficial, glib acknowledgement. Allow yourself to feel the full impact | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| come that are partly valid but also partly glib theories that may strike you as cliched. Perhaps | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| aware of yourselves to avoid the danger of glib judgment. This danger is another reason I waited | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| often sexual attitudes are dealt with in a glib way by simply judging them as healthy or | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| truth, because of a human tendency to be glib and lazy and to label, so as to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Glibly......................10 | |
| with human beings is that they use very glibly and quickly certain key words and labels. This | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not do it in a spirit of superficiality, glibly disposing of a duty done. In both cases | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| innermost selves. The tension and disturbance is then glibly explained away. These people may even have made | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| you really miss what you miss? Do not glibly content yourself with a vague, general acknowledgement. The | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| discontent and disharmony? Or are you quick to glibly furnish rationalizations for your disharmony? Or do you | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| governed by impulses and drives they can very glibly rationalize but whose real nature they fail to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| be an escape if the admission is made glibly, perhaps just because this is now expected of | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| two opposites -- faith and doubt. Religion will glibly say faith is right and doubt is wrong | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| doubt is wrong. Intellectually-minded people will say equally glibly that faith is wrong and doubt is right | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| do not assume anything too quickly and too glibly. Let it rather be a question within you | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Glimmer.....................9 | |
| souls who have not yet reached even a glimmer of light. So many thoughts are wasted in | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| more creatures felt was sufficient to bring a glimmer of light into their world, as though a | 21 THE FALL |
| accomplished. This was the time when the first glimmer of self- awareness was born, or reborn, or | 21 THE FALL |
| may be shocking, but not necessarily. The first glimmer of recognition is often already a relief. Even | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| approach. The instant you have experienced that first glimmer of understanding you will recognize how steeped in | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| you the road. May it give you a glimmer of light if you are hopeless and a | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| called self-realization. But they may give you a glimmer of what is to come; perhaps you have | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| meaning of your crisis, you may gain a glimmer of the creative process. It is apparently simultaneously | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| unaccepted, unexpressed negative feelings. And if occasionally a glimmer of the cosmic feeling comes and quickly slips | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Glimpse.....................27 | |
| who are in healing may have caught a glimpse of it. Encountering these previously unconscious currents and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a gleam of it, a small sheen, a glimpse of light, yet the influx is there; and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| been fulfilled or not. You can perhaps vaguely glimpse how infinitely complicated and exact this preparation of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| stone by stone, for only then will you glimpse the light and sense the infinite bliss. One | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you ever hope to attain even the slightest glimpse of reality? The higher spiritual, absolute reality cannot | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| about yourself from these words. Perhaps an occasional glimpse even now, a temporary flickering emotion that these | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| have a much harder time. When you first glimpse the new state of being, you will experience | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| whole. The moment you gain even a momentary glimpse of the truth, you will never be again | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| strain, and compulsion. If you have an occasional glimpse of such emotions, you do not as yet | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| general, my friends, but you can gain a glimpse of the many possibilities in the soul's unconscious | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you, my friends, have begun to get a glimpse of it. You may ask, What does the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Each little victory may give you an occasional glimpse of the great freedom and indescribable happiness of | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| growth cannot happen suddenly. First you have a glimpse, a momentary experience of a new way of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| one. If you pass through it, the momentary glimpse of strength, love, and light will come again | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| On the other hand, it is the occasional glimpse and sense of it that facilitates the proper | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Often, you are potentially ready to gain a glimpse of reality, to experience its beauty and wisdom | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your control and unattainable, you now begin to glimpse an occasional shaft of light that suggests a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| becomes imminent. This can happen only when you glimpse your personal twofold split, symbolized in your attitudes | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| season gain at the very least a vague glimpse into the condition I have explained in this | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| questions now? QUESTION: I may have caught a glimpse of what it is to come near the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| understood, but have gained an insight, or a glimpse, a hope and a light. This light shows | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| then? It is quite important for you to glimpse the answer, which is all you can do | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| circle continues. Some of you have a momentary glimpse of the negative intentionality, and this is progress | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| experiences you may have when you begin to glimpse your true identity. I want to prepare you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| analogy, a vast picture of which you only glimpse a small part through a narrow opening because | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| begin to alter, to widen and deepen. You glimpse connections you have never seen before, and which | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| you have attained a state without straining, you glimpse and finally experience this other reality. Or, you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Glimpsed....................3 | |
| course of your work many of you have glimpsed that all unhealthy reactions are artificial. They are | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| thwarts fulfillment. Even when this hidden agenda is glimpsed and conceptual acceptance develops, it still seems impossible | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| you can relinquish the straining because you have glimpsed this state. It must be approached from both | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Glimpses....................19 | |
| truth, a conclusion they base on their various glimpses behind the veil. They purport that everything connected | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| Such guidance will no longer come in unconnected glimpses occurring here and there along the way even | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| enlightenment, you have to work spiritually to regain glimpses of this light. The vague longing that first | 21 THE FALL |
| small degree. As I said, they may have glimpses of one plan for one alternative, but not | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| little more understanding of the Pathwork principles. These glimpses may eventually open the door for the active | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| are moments in your life when you gain glimpses of how far you have come, how much | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if you neither feel nor express the occasional glimpses of feelings that the still healthy part in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| latter will first come occasionally and in vague glimpses. But this will give you a new approach | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| tendency to overlook the importance of such vague glimpses. Please ponder over them. Look at the first | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| full value and deep significance they harbor. Such glimpses of health, as compared with the distorted, artificially | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Some of my friends have occasionally gained some glimpses of this already. How does this description of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Those of you who have caught the first glimpses of your negative desires have gained a new | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| in a different frame of reference, namely the glimpses that the taking of drugs have revealed. Damaging | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| struggle, from an overall point of view the glimpses gained have revealed a greater reality beyond the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| take this step sincerely, you will catch occasional glimpses into the divine self within, how it is | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| in the total unknown, because you had gained glimpses of reality in the course of the second | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| The difference between this state and the first glimpses gained on the second step is that those | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| gained on the second step is that those glimpses are known to be real -- very real | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| pain, but feel an inner peace because the glimpses of Reality follow more quickly in succession. This | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |