Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • February 1, 2024

    The basic problem of all existence, the root cause of all human suffering, is alienation from the mother. She was the whole world to us – the source of all love, and the cause of all distress. Reconciliation with her, the grateful reunion, is the task of life. This is the way, the only way,

  • January 24, 2024

    So many people complain, “But I did the affirmation. I can’t understand why the problem is still there!” If the affirmation is performed in a desultory manner, the effect will be quite short-lived—in fact, it may not even transpire. We must remember that it is not the repeating of

  • January 19, 2024

    The word altruism was coined relatively recently, by Auguste Comte in 1858, from the Latin, alter (other). To me the essence of healing is altruism. The more I can surrender my ego, give up any self-centered desires, and concentrate wholly on the suffering

  • January 11, 2024

    “Composing,” the composer proclaimed, “is creating within restraints.” And I did hear it right: restraints!

    I have always believed that more restraints mean less creativity. Creativity comes from the Muse, and It must be free to express Itself into the world, for Its Song is ever of love. But there are

  • January 5, 2024

    It has been said that muscles have memories. And no muscles have more memories than the external muscles that control the tongue. Every negative emotion that has afflicted us throughout our lives, it seems, is held in those muscles – every cry of anguish, every sob of

  • December 27, 2023

    Lenny, the giant of a man in Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men had a pet mouse that he kept in his pocket. Although he loved it – or apparently loved it – he stroked it to death. He was loving but not tender.

    Dan was the same. He obviously loved his wife and had

  • December 21, 2023

    When I was six I was admitted to hospital extremely ill, not thought to live.

    I vividly recall my mother waving good-bye to me through the glass screen. (I must have been in an isolation unit.)

    Then she hurriedly turned away to hide her tears, but I knew. And then she was

  • December 14, 2023

    Just what do we mean by “holistic”? So many holistic health centers offer professional work in many different areas – yoga, meditation, biofeedback, reflexology, nutritional counseling, patterned exercises, relaxation therapy, massage, acupressure and so on. But simply offering all these forms of therapy does not necessarily make a clinic holistic.

    “Holistic” in our framework encompasses the

  • December 6, 2023

    The word abstraction is defined as “A small quantity containing the virtue or power of the greater,”and comes from the Latin, abtrahere, meaning “to draw out from.” The process of abstraction is implicit in the creation of both photography and art.

    For example, when a photographer looks at a scene, he decides what

  • November 30, 2023

    Heaven’s Decree – the Karmic Plan – is for Yin and Yang to be forever in Perfect Balance: empty and full, “just-so.”