Facets of a Diamond – Blog

“I found my mother still alive but in a most deplorable state; the disease was consumption, and about seven weeks ago, after much pain and suffering, she died. She was such a kind, loving mother to me, and my best friend. Ah, who was happier than I when I could still utter the sweet name,

“The sole foundation of art is this power of losing one's separatedness, of feeling oneself at the same time a whole and yet a part of something far greater.” -- Georg Groddeck

“The power to be impregnated, and not the writing of poems, the painting of pictures, or the composition of music, is the essence of art, the being an artist.”* — Georg Groddeck

In my terms, Groddeck is speaking of the Inspiration that is then succeeded by Aspiration: the still meditation then the active.

* The World

For years he has complained of his poor memory.

And for years I have suggested a supplement that could help.

But always: “I don’t want it. I’m taking too many pills already.”

What is it that he must forget?

When you have traveled the Path to the top of the mountain, there to welcome you, arms open wide, smiling, is your Mother of Love.

The Diamond Path of Life is a Path to the full Embrace of Life – when you have come at last to Know your Soul, and everyone’s. All the one Soul of the Over-Soul.

There is a labyrinth through which we must pass to come, at last, to the Soul.

Music, art – all Creativity – can be, should be, the Golden Thread.

A poet is different because of his also: 

clouds are also alive,
fantasy is also real.

Psychologists speak of the “lyrical flux” of the unconscious.

I meditate that, hopefully, my freely flowing painting may be as a Song from my Deep Unconscious, my Soul.

To learn the secret of a magic trick is to diminish our wonder. We now know more – but Know less.

Life is magic, its Source the Secret. The more biology, the less Wonder.