conceit

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It is conceit that kills us 

and makes us cowards instead of gods. 

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Under the great Command: Know thy self, and that thou art mortal! 

we have become fatally self-conscious, fatally self-important, fatally entangled in the cocoon coils of our conceit. 

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Now we have to admit we can't know ourselves, we can only know about ourselves. 

And I am not interested to know about myself any more, 

I only entangle myself in the knowing. 

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Now let me be myself, 

now let me be myself, and flicker forth, 

now let me be myself, in the being, one of the gods. 

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~ D.H. Lawrence

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When

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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, 

when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, 

we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we do not know ourselves. 

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Cool, undying life will rush in, 

passion will make our bodies taut with power, 

we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, 

we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

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~  D.H. Lawerence

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Go deeper

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths,

love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock

molten, yet dense and permanent.

Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself.

And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved.

Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors.

For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths

out of sight, in the deep living heart.

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D.H. Lawrence
photo: Kilauea lava lake
thanks to http://kissing.wordpress.com/

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Life enters us from behind

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However smart we may be,

 however rich and clever or loving or charitable or spiritual or impeccable,

 it doesn't help us at all. 

The real power comes in to us from the beyond.

 Life enters us from behind, 

where we are sightless,

 and from below, 

where we do not understand. 

And unless we yield to the beyond, 

and take our power and might and honor and glory 

from the unseen, from the unknown,

 we shall continue empty.

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~  D. H. Lawrence

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in timelessness and nowhere

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Home again. But what was home? 

The fish has vast ocean for home. 

And man has timelessness and nowhere. 

"I won't delude myself with the fallacy of home," he said to himself.

 The four walls are a blanket I wrap around in,

 in timelessness and nowhere, to go to sleep.
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~ D.H. Lawrence

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