Facets of a Diamond – Blog

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.

Imagine that you are swinging on a trapeze bar high above the ground. You are about to let go and sail through the air, your arms outstretched in front of you to grab the other bar coming toward you. How fearful you would be in this situation depends on whether there is a safety net.

A vow is the most sincere, solemn promise.

The dedicated student makes a vow to learn all he can to actuate his Life Energy. And his therapist makes a complementary vow to teach him.

This mutual vow is at the very heart’s core of all True Therapy. With­out this bilateral, equal, and total commitment there can never

Every moment of life
a miracle –
never to be understood,
only Known.

It is imperative, I believe, for us to see, to Know, our mother’s Soul, her Godliness, her Buddha-Nature. Only then can we Know our own – and so, at last, be relieved of our anguish.

This does not mean that our mothers need to change but