Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Journal of Glimpses
    Journal of Glimpses
    Journal of Glimpses
    Ebook137 pages1 hour

    Journal of Glimpses

    By W. Dutchak

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Journaling of experiences that revealed significant insights in life's journey. You might see a different level of insights that pertain to your path of questioning in your particular life experience. It is my hope that in your reading you may perceive glimpses that reveal some of the light of life. And perhaps you will begin your own journal tending as you start to perceive the wondrous revelations in your daily experience of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. Dutchak
    Release dateJul 26, 2015
    ISBN9780993786259
    Journal of Glimpses
    Author

    W. Dutchak

    Walter Dutchak has had a varied career, and eclectic education. His interests vary over a large range including music, art, amateur astronomy, philosophy, and spiritual topics. His career has included teaching in public schools, teaching adults in the work place, writing technical courses, engineering technology, computer programming and application design, and over 22 years in the telecommunications industry. Main current interests include self-inquiry and understanding relationships in their variety of manifestations. Being attuned to the manifestations of the subjective realm of reality is a primary point of attention in ever-present awareness. To date Walter has written four books: Thoughts and Time, Watching Thought, Mastery of Self and Journal of Glimpses. The author has been experiencing retirement from the labour market for the past 20 years. He is currently enjoying life with his spouse, son, daughter-in-law and granddaughters in the quiet town of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

    Read more from W. Dutchak

    Related to Journal of Glimpses

    Related ebooks

    Personal Growth For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Teen Journaling

      Aug 20, 2021

      Teen Journaling
      3 min read

    • Article

      Bookmark This

      Feb 22, 2022

      A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself Nedra Glover Tawwab • TarcherPerigee “‘Boundaries’ can be such a broad and intimidating term,” therapist, author, and relationship expert Nedra Glover Tawwab writes in the first few pages of Set Boundaries, Find Peace.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Viewpoint

      Feb 16, 2024

      I was reading some of your recent January features about New Year starts, treading old ground, when I stumbled upon one of your writers whose view felt somewhat more aligned with my own. Why is it that somewhere along the way, someone decided that th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Rethinking Procrastination: Maybe It’s Not So Bad After All?

      Feb 9, 2021

      Estimated reading time: 7 minutes — Writing a second book should be much easier than writing your first, right? After all, you know what it takes so it should be a breeze. Oh, how I wish that was the case for me, but alas it was just the opposite. B

      4 min read

    • Article

      Publishing Your First Book

      Feb 7, 2018

      SHELLY ORIA is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. Recently she coauthored a digital novella, C

      9 min read

    • Article

      Publishing Your First Book

      Feb 14, 2018

      SHELLY ORIA is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. Recently she coauthored a digital novella, C

      9 min read

    • Article

      12 Soul-mending Questions

      Oct 10, 2018

      12 Soul-mending Questions
      9 min read

    • Article

      Is Your Nest EMPTY?

      Jul 27, 2023

      Is Your Nest EMPTY?
      5 min read

    • Article

      Creative Spiritual Living

      Sep 17, 2020

      Creative Spiritual Living
      4 min read

    • Article

      Life-changing Conversations

      Nov 30, 2021

      Life-changing Conversations
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Limited Edition Of One: Owning & Unleashing Your Uniqueness

      Jun 3, 2021

      Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — It happened in the main shopping street in Windhoek, Namibia. I caught sight of my smiling reflection in a shop front. The window was full of clothes that looked nothing like those I was wearing, or could imagine

      4 min read

    • Article

      Negativity Detox

      Dec 28, 2023

      Negativity Detox
      6 min read

    • Article

      I Am Enough

      Dec 28, 2023

      I Am Enough
      3 min read

    • Article

      How To Flourish In Dark Times

      Apr 8, 2021

      How To Flourish In Dark Times
      4 min read

    • Article

      Disorderly Days

      Mar 7, 2022

      Disorderly Days
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Abundance Mindset

      Jan 6, 2021

      The Abundance Mindset
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Journal of Glimpses

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Journal of Glimpses - W. Dutchak

      INTRODUCTION

      Upon reading William Samuel's works I learned that he encouraged daily journaling – or as often as the urge manifests itself. It is a very productive method of communing with the thoughts and beliefs that appear to control every aspect of our lives.

      I had already started journaling seriously about 5 years ago and immediately realized the value of William Samuel's analysis on the matter. My journaling includes writing down impressions, views and thoughts pertaining to the life we experience every day. As William suggests in his books, I re-read the journaling that I had done over the past 2 years and was rewarded with new insights and golden glimpses that revealed a depth of insight beyond what I had originally perceived when I did the original journaling.

      In this book I have edited my recent journaling into hopefully helpful segments that discuss a topic that presented itself to me when I wrote it down. You might see a different level of insights that pertain to your path of questioning in your particular life experience.

      I really enjoy doing the journaling process and hope that perhaps you will take up a similar practice. William Samuel describes the process in some detail in his book The Child Within us Lives – A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics.

      As William sees it, The purpose of the journal is to consciously become the very point where the Ineffable becomes tangible in the world....

      William Samuel further describes the value of journal tending in terms of the Mode we put ourselves into as we write.

      This is how William Samuel describes it:

      I can't remember when or why I began using the term journal tending because it really isn't that. It is more a jotting down of thoughts as they come or an examination of one's own thinking. It is very often a conversation between the me-sense and the Self within. For many years my journal was a shirt pocket and a dresser drawer; whatever words, phrases or sentences came were jotted onto whatever was handy – old envelopes, receipts, grocery bags. These bits and pieces were emptied into a drawer each day, and it was many years before the activity was even half organized.

      The reader, however, is not being asked to do an effortless thing either. It does take time and a small effort to sit down and ask God a question – and then to be still and listen for an answer. When we talk to friends, some slight momentary attention is necessary to select the right words to describe the antics of our dog romping in the autumn leaves just raked. But we do that almost effortlessly. No more effort than this is required for keeping a journal as I propose doing it. Just remember, it isn't what we write that matters half so much as the MODE we put ourselves into as we write. Writing may be a discipline most of us don't enjoy because we can't write as easily as we can talk – and we are afraid to look at our results – but writing is invaluable because of the receptiveness it engenders.

      My experience with journal tending per William Samuel's explanation has been very rewarding in terms of revealing various gems of insight in my life experience.

      It is my hope that in your reading you may perceive glimpses that reveal some of the light of life. And perhaps you will begin your own journal tending as you start to perceive the wondrous revelations in your daily experience of life.

      Walt

      St. Thomas, Canada

      June 2015

      ~.~

      1 - SEPTEMBER 2014

      #1

      Allow the Beloved

      Aware of wanting,

      Forsake all waiting.

      No time to expect,

      No time to project.

      What is here,

      Cannot be lost.

      ‘Tis to be found here,

      ‘Tis to be found now.

      Here and now

      Is beyond any time of waiting.

      Let go for love,

      Allow the beloved to come in.

      One with the beloved,

      Here and now is eternity.

      ~.~

      #2

      NOT A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL

      In what way can we add value and meaning to our life experience?

      Every day we receive so many signals

      from life,

      in so many different ways.

      Those signals that are integral to our

      most intimate relationship

      and connection with life.

      In ESSENCE,

      it is absolutely undeniable

      that we ARE Life.

      Life is us -

      everyone a unique expression.

      Every unique wave an ocean, water -

      each one of us, in essence Life.

      Can you see past

      the physical manifestation;

      past a human body,

      a mind,

      a personality?

      To what depth do you know yourself?

      Can you reach beyond beliefs, or

      thoughts or educated notions?

      Mastery of Self is seldom taken seriously;

      but it is in fact the key,

      the very foundation for success -

      and much more

      than the mind could ever conceive.

      ~.~

      #3

      Regarding Procrastination
      - or any other inhibiting tendency

      One definition of procrastination might be

      "the art of successfully avoiding an impending challenge".

      Can it be that procrastination is in some way a reaction to facing the unknown? Can it be a sort of fear manifestation?

      Are you prepared to face the common challenges that meet us every day? Or, do you think of challenges as threats?

      What kind of threats?

      Does a challenge seem to threaten your comfort? Most people feel comfortable when their sense of identity is not challenged. It is very comforting to believe that you are right about yourself, and you would wish that how people view you is the same as you think of yourself.

      It takes great daring, great vision and a great sense of confidence (i.e. faith or trust) to face an impending challenge head on.

      The challenge could be as simple as cleaning the floors, or doing the laundry, or any other common chore. Or it could be the preparation of a report, or delivering a minor speech of some sort to a local club or your own little interest group.

      What might the next moment hold? It could be most challenging in various ways. The next moment, the next day, the next month, they are all waiting to greet you.

      Will I take that next step with confidence? Will I fail or will I succeed? Is this a useful question, or is it just a taunting fear in the mind? What opportunities for insight, change and growth await me? They are all challenges.

      Do you have a fixed view of yourself, of who you are? Is it possible that your particular view limits the scope of your capabilities and potential? Can you see that this inflexibility or constraint of thought limits potentially greater expressions in your life experience?

      Procrastination is limiting your potential, your growth, your being. It keeps you in the mould of your conditioning. Procrastination may be expressing itself as a serious problem or just a mild nuisance. In either case it is one of many signs that can manifest in life experience.

      These signs are actually wake-up calls to notice what and how you are manifesting in your particular life experience.

      Your attentiveness to these sort of signs is a useful step toward greater mastery of self.

      Enquire! Find out who or what you really are, beyond the limitations of rational thought.

      You are much more than you think you are!

      Every successful implementation of Mastery of self displays itself as a beacon to others. And, if others see your light, might they not also take a moment — to look inwardly

      — to enable life experience in a new direction?

      Can this be a glimpse about procrastination only? I think not!

      It appears that procrastination has been used sort of like a springboard to reveal a common denominator relevant to life experience and life expression.

      It seems to me that any inhibiting tendency can be used to enquire more deeply into the potential abilities of our being to meet challenges.

      ~.~

      #4

      Time and Its Tricks

      Do you sometimes feel like time seems to go by more quickly, especially as we grow older in years? Why do some people experience this running out of time?

      Is it maybe that over many years we have repeated things in our mind so many times that our ideas have become fixed and difficult to change? We establish favourite thoughts, comfortable ideas and beliefs.

      Do we not in this sense condition our mind? Are these not conditions that we establish in our mind? Is this how we determine how we will behave because the conditions we set seem to please us most at that time?

      And then, much later (in time) when we no longer see the same pleasures and would like to change, it is much more difficult. The mind is conditioned from the patterns of behaviour that we established and drilled into it long before.

      And time seems to be part of all this, doesn't it?

      All those years of repetition! Same old, same old. So comfortable with the old that we may have shut the door to anything new.

      Have we literally conditioned our vision and thinking? And so, does that sort of

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1