Facets of a Diamond – Blog
April 13, 2021
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.
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April 11, 2021
How many millions have puzzled over Botticelli's “La Primavera” – and the infinite reproductions. And all the basic question: What's it about?
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April 8, 2021
Treatment deals only with the conscious – what the patient knows to complain of. Therapy deals with the superficial unconscious. At its best reducing the hate, but never inducing pure love.
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April 6, 2021
Words are merely signifiers of reality, not, as we so often treat them, reality itself. Their application, whether as a simple name given to an object or a whole story created about it, forces us to see the object in a particular way, and so limits our perception.
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April 4, 2021
Music should be mellifluous, meli from the ancient word for honey, and fluous, flowing.
So Music should flow like honey: smoothly, sweetly.
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April 1, 2021
No sufferer ever leaves the healer without his Life Energy being enhanced. With him now passionately, enthusiastically, whole-heartedly and gratefully Embracing all of his life. Anything less than that is, at best, only therapy, and perhaps no more than treatment.
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March 30, 2021
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.
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March 28, 2021
My dear friend and psychiatric mentor, John Kerridge, used to quote this to me.
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March 25, 2021
I was in the waiting room of a famous “Complementary Medicine” practitioner, observing the patients entering his office and leaving it. Their Life Energy – their Love of Life, their desire to Embrace Life, was unchanged.
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March 23, 2021
A twig, a faded leaf, a cheap plastic bowl, a dead tree by the roadside: all lonely objects, just waiting to be discovered and reverenced. And aren't people just the same? Another inspiring and insightful discussion by Dr. Diamond.
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