Facets of a Diamond – Blog
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Heaven’s Decree – the Karmic Plan – is for Yin and Yang to be forever in Perfect Balance: empty and full, “just-so.”
The Karmic Plan causes me to act for the evolution of the spirit within me. I am here for it.
Whatever I do affects others – and therefore the spirits within them, and what they do affects my spirit as well as their own.
Thus does the Karmic Plan always
My wife has always maintained that when I work with a sufferer, I am a mirror: “something that faith fully reflects or gives a true picture of something else.”
In a way that is so, but I try to be more than just a passive pane of coated glass. My work
There are two uses of the word beauty. The first is the everyday meaning, where almost anything is be claimed to be beautiful, whatever its intrinsic value. But there is deeper meaning too.