Facets of a Diamond – Blog
In terms of Oriental influence – or should I say Guidance? – I might mention that I often, unconsciously, paint using the “flying white” technique.
Humans, of all creatures on Earth, have the most dependent babies, and because of this, the challenges of motherhood are tremendous. By giving mothers help to sustain their love, we will produce children without fear, and thus with no anguish, or hatred.
I woke up this morning singing the last line of the traditional ballad “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye” but the words changed to "Mummy, I hardly knew you." And that, tragically, is so true.
A man who is not Good, what can he have to do with music? So proclaimed Confucius!
From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.
It does seem to me, in my limited way, that Shankara's Non-Duality is not exactly so. He states that Atman is Brahman, and Atman is the Deepest Self (what I would call the Soul): the Soul is God.
We live much of our lives in fear, but those fears are often imaginary and are the ultimate reason for our life's anguish. They begin prenatally and are exacerbated by the modern birthing process. One in the Mothers and Mothering series of videos.
In the middle of last night, I thought of "Fisher." Was it the Fisher Library at Sydney University? Then it became Avery Fisher – the concert hall at Lincoln Center. Why? Who?
Aspiration is the rising up to Other Power. And, of course, it is Other Power that causes us to Aspire.