Facets of a Diamond - Blog

Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.

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?

Through meditation he would have gone Yonder, past his unconscious of admixed love and fear – especially the fear – to his Deep Unconscious of Pure, Pure Love, his Innate Perfection.

Perhaps one could say that his self-analysis was a form of meditation – but of the mind rather than of the heart.

I wonder if he had really loved Music – which, as is well known, he did not – how different might he have been. Surrendered to the Pulse of Life, to the Love – Yonder.

(2012)