Facets of a Diamond – Blog

“There is a tide in the affairs of men,” Shakespeare proclaimed. Not a force or power, or a direction, but a tide.

A tide: ebb and flow, ebb and flow. Movement, always movement; ever changing yet ever recurring. Always advancing through time—to where? To where? Back and forth, round and round, and on and on.

I stand

I believe that the basic blind spot is the birthing trauma, and that later traumas are then overlaid on it.

Drawing on the work of Sir Isaiah Berlin, Dr. Diamond distinguishes two types of people: “Hedgehogs,” who have a central philosophy that animates all they do, and “foxes,” who know many small things.

See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.

Photography teaches me
to see the little things,
not the wide river—
too much—much too much—
but the tiny ripples
flowing round the twig.

I learn to love Her
through Her tiny things.

Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.

On the day

Once we are given to realize that the Tao is not for us but for the spirit within us...

"Music and movement are essential concomitants, and the result of that is grace." Dr. Diamond discusses work he did with the English Junior Davis Cup squad.

In this free video, Dr. Diamond equates the "Valley Spirit" of Lao Tzu with the mother of love. One in the "Mothers and Mothering" series of videos.

"To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease."—A.T. Still, the founder of Osteopathy

In meditation, still and active, one’s self is given over to the Higher Power, to Amida Buddha, to the Great Spirit.

Defined as “the feeling of feeling loved,” “belovedness” is a central concept in Dr. Diamond’s work. In this inspirational video, he discusses the term, along with other core ideas, such as the overcoming of anguish and the difference between “knowledge” and “Knowledge.”