Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • March 15, 2020

    I would like to practice true Psyche-atry.

    Psyche is from the root BHES – to breathe. The Greek psukhein, to breathe gave us psukhe, soul. (The Latin halare, from the same root, gave us inhalation and exhalation – and halitosis.)

  • March 12, 2020

    However much you may believe that you believe in jiriki (self-power) that's still Tariki (Other Power) acting through you.

  • March 10, 2020

    In this free video, Dr. Diamond discusses how, up until recently, medicine has disregarded the value of such a crucial organ for our health and wellbeing.

  • March 8, 2020

    I’ve searched for years for the appropriate word of that which I photograph.

    “Subject” makes it inferior, under me.

    “Object” too cold, unfeeling.

  • March 5, 2020

    For me, a major – perhaps the major – criterion of any work of art is whether the viewer believes not that the artist has painted it, but that it has been painted through him.

  • March 3, 2020

    Dr. Diamond has composed a large number of special therapeutic songs which he calls lilts. Like his original artwork and photography, his lilts are created with the specific intention of raising the Life Energy of the performer and his audience.
     

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  • March 1, 2020

    I was talking to a dentist friend who remarked on my mother across the room that she had dentures, he could tell.

    I suddenly realized not only did I not know this about her – but so much else!

  • February 27, 2020

    There are three levels to a work of art, to a photograph.

  • February 25, 2020

    In this free video, Dr. Diamond discusses his pioneering work with the heart chakra and thymus, the most closely related organ. A fascinating introduction.

  • February 23, 2020

    Lucien Stryk says of Zen: "to use the fewest … strokes of the brush to express their feelings."

    In that case, my paintings – now – are certainly Zen: very few strokes, so many only one.

    But, to go further: what feeling to express?