Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love. But always there
Brilliantly original and deeply insightful, Twirling the Rose is one of Diamond’s most intimate and searching works.
Bill had lost twenty five pounds in weight, but, strangely, his belly seemed larger than ever. He asked me what he could do about it. My first hunch was that there was a weakness of the
The essence of psychosomatic medicine: that all the tissues and organs of the body are related to specific emotional states through the acupuncture system.
Every day at the end of my meditation I sing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, you all.
To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives.
- W.H. Auden, “In Memory of Siegmund Freud”
Freud’s most important contribution: all our activity, mental and physical, is determined by our unconscious. Our decisions are never really based on logic.
It seems to me that the tragedy of Freud is that knowing his deep inner shall I say despair he chose what he called self-analysis rather than meditation: to find out what and why rather than Who?
Every morning I would lie in bed and look up at the skylight. And every morning became obsessed by the one corner that was not square.
Hindu sages speak of finding "the Unseen through the seen" — looking past the physical to perceive the divine, cosmic reality that lies behind it. As with sages, so with healers. The Unseen within us is
Two little pebbles, thrown at random – if random there be – onto a tray of sand. Place them at Peace – and you will be too. But how? Just ask them – from your heart.
