DH Lawrence on Trees, Solitudes and What Roots Us

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July 27, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling. - D.H. Lawrence - DH Lawrence on Trees, Solitudes and What Roots Us "A supreme challenge of human life is reconciling the longing to fulfill ourselves in union, in partnership, in love, with the urgency of fulfilling ourselves according to our own solitary and sovereign laws. Writing at the same time as Hesse, living in exile in the mountains, having barely survived an attack of the deadly Spanish Flu that claimed tens of millions of lives, the polymathic creative force D.H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885-March 2, 1930) took up the question of this divergent longing with great subtlety and splendor of insight in his autobiographically tinted novel 'Aaron's Rod', rooting the plot's climactic relationship resolution in a stunning passage about trees." { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, here's a passage by Herman Hesse, "Trees are Sanctuaries." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 111 Trees One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus Children, Anger Control and Inuit Wisdom How to Be Yourself How to Strengthen Your Inner Shield On Being Alone Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 246,997 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More