Facets of a Diamond – Blog
My dear friend and psychiatric mentor, John Kerridge, used to quote this to me.
I was in the waiting room of a famous “Complementary Medicine” practitioner, observing the patients entering his office and leaving it. Their Life Energy – their Love of Life, their desire to Embrace Life, was unchanged.
A twig, a faded leaf, a cheap plastic bowl, a dead tree by the roadside: all lonely objects, just waiting to be discovered and reverenced. And aren't people just the same? Another inspiring and insightful discussion by Dr. Diamond.
Our word stillness is from the root STA, to stand, to stay. Hence, for instance, steadfast. We think of stillness as being without movement.
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
Aristotle taught that the essence of tragedy is hamartia – the tearing apart of the fabric of one's existence.
When the great physician Georg Groddeck first examined a sufferer in his clinic, he would lay his head on his, or her, bare abdomen, sometimes for hours.
Enlightened medical training should encourage an understanding of human nature, including embracing the canon of enlightened culture.
If an average person looks at a low energy, even unloving, painting he will be put into that negative state. But if he closes his eyes for, say, a few minutes, then he will behold it as an Instance of God.