Facets of a Diamond – Blog
When I meet with a sufferer from any disease I recommend that he read all the books on it that he can find. And then choose the particular approach that appeals to him.
I reassure him that I will assist him along his chosen path. But – and it’s a big but – it must be
Yes, I am pantheistic. Everything is Spirit – is its own unique individual manifestation of The Spirit. Everything is Alive! And the more we Know this Truth, the stronger can be our relationship with It.
Every painting is Alive! Every painting projects, emanates, This into the space before it, into us in that space. And the
At the end of his tragically short life (1850-1904), Lafcadio Hearn, “Japan’s Greatest Interpreter,” wrote this in his Reverie.* Especially poignant as he had been separated from his mother since he was two:
“It has been said that men fear death much as the child cries at entering the world, being unable to know what loving
There is a purpose other than the usual for living. It is to be healing.
This, to the best of my efforts, is at the core of my endeavors.
I am not an author, only a writer attempting to heal. I am not an artist, only a painter attempting to heal.
Whoever I am, I am a healer
On the subject of the Spirit World, he loudly, proudly, proclaims that he is a cynic. This cynic?
“Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.”
— George Meredith, The Egoist
One of the basic tenets of Zen – and every religion, even Zen, has its dogmas – is that of Direct Pointing, without reference to the literature.
And yet so many Zen masters write!
I look at the trees around me. All directly pointing. So Zen.
I’m blessed by this house
in so many ways,
but perhaps most of all
by these trees so Alive.