Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • November 5, 2020

    "Does this artist have a soul?," you ask.

  • November 3, 2020

    The ancient Chinese painters believed that one's will is at the tip of the brush.

  • November 3, 2020

    The goal of psychiatry is usually just symptom relief. While important, there is so much more to be done. Dr. Diamond has for many years been mainly concerned with addressing the anguish that underlies the symptoms – the anguish of the human condition.

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  • November 1, 2020

    The ancient Chinese scholar poets, the so-called literati, greatly appreciated certain rocks for their aesthetic qualities. Gongshi they were called, scholar's rocks. I have collected many rocks – from everywhere. (One is in my other hand now as I write this). It's not their aesthetics but their Spirit that I Feel.

  • October 27, 2020

    From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.

  • October 25, 2020

    To a dangerously ill young Chinese woman. I said "Li Bai" – and you smiled. You said "Mozart"  – and smiled again. Through your smile I saw your Soul.

  • October 22, 2020

    Samuel Johnson: “It is always a writer's duty to make the world better.”

  • October 20, 2020

    "Endum" is a Latin word-ending meaning “worthy of being done.” Approaching healing as an endum encourages us to perform it for a Higher Purpose.

  • October 18, 2020

    A very dedicated nurse practitioner told me of a patient whom I had once also seen. She is afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and has of course mobility difficulties. When I saw her, her Inner Flame was very low – she had read and been told so much about her diagnosis and her prognosis that she had, basically, surrendered any desire to live.

  • October 15, 2020

    Why must it be imposed on a believer to prove the existence of the Spirit World? What if the Belief is innate, as is the feeding instinct?