John Diamond (doctor)

"The healer must love the sufferer as his [surrogate] mother and be loved in return by the sufferer as his [surrogate] mother. For the ultimate healing is knowing the Love of ones own mother... However, only when the surrogate role is kept firmly in mind can the Love be true, be altruistic."

"Play with joy, with a smile. If you arent enjoying it—stop. Never practice—thats just the brain. Always play, even if the audience is afar. Thats the heart as well. Dont judge your playing—for then it is not play, but hard work. Just aim to refine your intention."

"It is life energy that causes us to grow. It is life energy that enables us to heal. ... It evokes the true and only healing, that which occurs from within. A drug may relieve the symptoms of a disease but it does not cure. The true cure always involves a major change in the persons attitude toward himself and toward life."

"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."

"Holistic does not mean doing all things, but bringing all of yourself to all of the sufferer, and him bringing all of himself to you."

"Now we must remember that there is no Orions belt in the sky. There is only a collection of stars that appear to us, once they are pointed out, to resemble what we imagine Orions belt to have been. But there is no more relationship between the stars comprising the belt than there is between all the stars in the universe. The only relationship is that which we have created in our own fantasy. A medical diagnosis is like Orions belt. It doesnt really exist. It is just putting together a few easily observed findings that seem to have some special relationship. But when we do this, we ignore all the thousands of other findings that are really just as equally related and equally important in the whole universe of the patient."