Facets of a Diamond – Blog

Empathy: to feel the suffering.
Sympathy: to take it on.

A healer must always be empathetic, but never sympathetic, for then he is as disempowered as the sufferer.

To empathize is to become one with the sufferer.
To sympathize is to become the sufferer.

A sympathetic surgeon who cries as he cuts the patient’s skin would be useless. On the

It’s said that the basic intention behind all spiritual endeavors is reconciliation with God.

I can’t directly reconcile you with God – but I can with your mother.

And to us all, our mother is God – as God on earth.  For she was, and still is, our holiest intimation of the Divine.

The way to God is

I love the SP root. It gave rise to so many words, most of them with a common, central meaning. Consider a few: spurt, sprinkle, spark, sperm, sputum, spit. All with the idea of something vital being projected from a live source to a destination which it may vitalize: the spark igniting the kindling.

A general note on what I think I mean: Soul: the Deepest, Holiest part of an individual’s self, which, being of the self, dies with the rest. It is our Jen, our Humanity, our Matrophilia. Spirit: The spirit dwells within us throughout our lives, being incarnated at our conception. And on our death it returns to the Spirit World, to be reincarnated again and again as it has been countless times in the past – and as it will be in the future.

The only knowledge really worth knowing dwells not in the mind but in the heart. This I capitalize, as It deserves – Knowledge. And this, the Knowledge, is of Belovedness.

There must be an unconscious association between our words (and therefore our concepts) breath and breast, as their etymologies are so close that they must have been derived from a single primitive source.

The very essence of the work of the psychoanalyst George Frankl: 1. all children are born loving     and 2. human nature is essentially good.

Richard Storry writes of the “devoted attention given, throughout its waking hours, to the Japanese child by the mother,” noting that “the conscious and unconscious Japanese memory of childhood in Arcadia depends surely on the constant proximity, concern, and availability of the mother.”

What matters more: “I love you” or “I Know you love me”? I believe the second – and my love is in grateful return for hers.

Our word physician is from the Greek phusis: physics and physical things. So a physician is concerned with the physical body, the physique.