[b]D.H. Lawrence
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.[/b]
An achieved stillnes. What could possibly be more obvious. Or obscure.
It is very much easier to shatter prison-bars than to open undiscovered doors to life.
What we really need here though are some examples.
Why don’t we stay in love that way all our lives? Why do we turn into corpses with consciousness?
Anyone here not turned into one yet?
They were mere permutations of known quantities. There was no roundness or fullness in this world he now inhabited, everything was a dead shape mental arrangement, without life or being.
You either live with it or, well, you know.
How terrible it was that it should be spring, and everything cold-hearted, cold-hearted.
Maybe next year…
What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
Of course for most of us we’ll have money in order for this to even be an option.