Facets of a Diamond – Blog

We all have many spirit guides, what I call the spirit shaping force. The composition of this force – the particular guides comprising it – is, I am led to believe, unique for each individual. And through the individual’s life experiences – all as guided – the spirit within will evolve as Meant.

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Bertrand Russell once said that he didn’t know what electricity was, but that he knew what it did.

I feel the same way about Spirit. I certainly don’t know what It is – but I most certainly see what It does: Everything!

How can I ever claim I did this painting, when All is Spirit acting in

I was once intrigued by the title of a book, The Quiet Therapies. It led me to wonder who the quietest therapist I had ever known was. The answer was obvious. He was not a psychiatrist, nor a psychologist, nor even a doctor. He was the male nurse in charge of the psychiatry wards at a hospital in which I worked many years ago. His name was Wally Brown.

“What more do you want out of life?” she asked quite unexpectedly, looking straight into my eyes.

“I don’t know…not much,” I replied, turning away from her, taken aback, “I am really pretty happy with things as they are.”

I was superficially pleased with my answer, by my (apparent) acceptance of my Way – and yet underneath,

The most basic and primitive emotion is love in its various manifestations.

This has been neglected in medicine, neglected in psychiatry, and neglected in our society. We don’t read in the newspapers about love. We don’t read in the medical textbooks about love. We don’t read in the psychiatric textbooks above love, except to study it

You look at some modern art and proclaim that a child could paint it. But you’ve got it the wrong way around! Instead look at the Art on a refrigerator door and declare that no artist could paint that – for it was done with love.

So it is that every child is a Greater artist

In the old days, when the spirit left someone, when the will to live and to be whole and perfect left him, he just died.

The great Confucian philosopher Mencius stated – and I’m sure believed – that love is basic to our nature as it is the nature of water to flow downhill.

Every problem is a pebble, perhaps a rock, impeding the natural flow of chi, of our human nature, through us.

(January 2017)

At some level – superficial, shallow or deep – every work of art still transmits the basic problems of life, for example, the fear of death.  For few persons have ever really overcome them, at the deepest level.

Therefore to listen to any music, contemplate any painting, feel any sculpture – and relate to any person

Ethics is the taking responsibility for all of one’s actions — and thoughts, for they, too, radiate just as far.

How far? Every action, physical or mental, lives on for ever, resonating through its effects on all and their sequential subsequent effects on all to come.

Everyone affects everyone – for ever.