We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.
D. H. LawrenceI should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.
D. H. LawrenceThe world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
D. H. LawrenceAny inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
D. H. LawrenceOne should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
D. H. LawrenceMen are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. LawrenceThe mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.
D. H. Lawrence