Creativity
Dr. Diamond has published many book on many aspects of creativity, including music, art, photography, and poetry, always with a focus on using these activities for healing and meditation.
Meditation, active and passive, is a means of linking in with Guidance from the Spirit World.
Yes, we are always linked in, so I am led to believe, for all activity, physical and mental, is as Guided. But as one Guide has put it, “The more you are aware of Guidance, the more
At some level – superficial, shallow or deep – every work of art still transmits the basic problems of life, for example, the fear of death. For few persons have ever really overcome them, at the deepest level.
Therefore to listen to any music, contemplate any painting, feel any sculpture – and relate to any person
“Revelation,” Emerson wrote, “is the disclosure of the soul.”*
To go to the soul – of the composer, of the poet, of the painter, of the sufferer, of every thing and every one – this alone will lead to Revelation. To find the soul and reveal it to the world. Especially the soul of the mother,
It was the beginning of a seminar I was conducting in London. I looked at the audience. To nearly all of them I was a stranger as they were to me. I could feel their tension and uncertainty as they sat there clutching their pads and pencils, ready to write down every word I
The lifelong quest for Belovedness, for Perfection, for God is the attempt to regain the Feeling in the womb, where we were moved – lapped – by the breathing movements of the mother, the All Other.
The basic principle of psychoanalysis is to say whatever comes into your mind, no matter how ridiculous or meaningless it may seem to be. For free association is the royal road to the unconscious. To the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate, that is.
But there is another unconscious, one far more important. It is
How are we to keep the meditative state induced in stillness, the inkling we have gained of the Buddha-Nature, continuing throughout the daily activities which follow? Yes, all of these should be, as the Bhagavad Gita teaches, a sacrifice to God; the whole day being lived as meditation in action, but how are we to
The ultimate test of every act of creativity: Does it help you to enthusiastically, passionately, whole-heartedly and gratefully Embrace all your life? This, I believe, is the basic Purpose of all the arts—and thus should be the basic Intention of every artist.
What do I mean by “Embrace”? The word is derived from the Greek brakhion,