John Diamond (doctor): Believer

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“For years I have encouraged my patients and students to play musical instruments. I believe that it is essential for their ultimate health to be able to express themselves musically. Inside each of us is the deep desire to open our hearts and sing out with love. I find that when they allow music-making to enter into their lives, there is a beautiful change. There is an opening of the heart.”

John Diamond (doctor)

Source: The Life Energy in Music, Vol. 1 (1981), p. 105

Love , Health , Beauty , Music

“The 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.”

John Diamond (doctor)

Source: A Few Words on Art (Just a Few) (2010), p. 2

Life , Art , Passion , Help

“We can accept any and all events in our existence if we believe our mothers love us. For, as I say, she was, and still is, all the world to us.”

John Diamond (doctor)

Source: The Veneration of Life: Through the Disease to the Soul (1999), p. 54

Love , World

“My deepest intention is that some day a sufferer, no matter how afflicted, will be able to look at a painting, at a photograph, and be instantly healed. That is my ultimate hope. Not to be realized in this life, maybe, but that is what I believe art can do.”

John Diamond (doctor)

Source: Art for Healing: Guided Painting Then and Now (2011), p. 39

Life , Hope , Art , Affliction