Facets of a Diamond – Blog
February 23, 2023
Accepting all that others do to me as coming through them, as the Karmic Plan. All being, in this sense, acts of God. And all not for me but for the spirit within me.
I accept all for the spirit within.
(Well, not in fact – but at least in fantasy.)
Read More » February 19, 2023
The suffix -phor means to carry. Hence metaphor, to carry beyond (meta meaning beyond).
And from the root ESU, to be well, the Greeks derived euphoros, a feeling of great happiness, of well being. Hence our euphoria.
Read More » February 16, 2023
In a large Shin temple dedicated to Amida Buddha, there is displayed a painting of black lines on white in what seems like the seeming randomness of a Jackson Pollock.
Read More » February 14, 2023
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
Read More » February 12, 2023
Vivekananda taught to not concentrate on the mother but on that which animates her.
From the root ANE, breath – that which animates – is derived the Latin anima, the Soul.
Read More » February 9, 2023
One of my daily Healing invocations
Read More » February 5, 2023
As Edith Hamilton stated, Ibsen is not a great tragedian in the spirit of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Shakespeare because his characters are of human size, whereas there’s nothing merely human of Oedipus or Lear.
Read More » February 2, 2023
You are as you believe your mother to be.
Read More » January 31, 2023
Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, and compassion, and infused with a deep spirituality, each of the poems on these recordings is a gem, written with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the listener.
Read More » January 29, 2023
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination.”
Keats
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