Thank you for enlightening my soul’s journey. I have always loved Lawrence but never read this but now I better understand my connection to him. Unfortunately I am retired and am on low fixed income.
Lawrence has always interested me. His perspectives, while sometimes incredibly dark, are deep and rich and layered with all the nuances that make up humanity.
This reflection by D.H. Lawrence deeply resonates with the Quranic worldview, which treats the cycle of day and night not merely as physical phenomena, but as profound spiritual rhythms meant to recalibrate the soul.
The night, described in the Quran as “a time of stillness” (سُباتًا) and “a covering” (لِباسًا), is not just the absence of light — it is the return to the center. A sacred inward motion where the soul disengages from the noise of the world and reorients itself. In this way, Lawrence’s notion of returning to the “very center” mirrors the Quranic call to seek presence and realignment in the silence of the night.
Likewise, the day is for action (مَعاشًا) — but action alone, without inward renewal, becomes empty. Automatism, as Lawrence warned, is precisely what the Quran warns against: living without reflection, drifting without remembrance, functioning without soul.
The balance between inner stillness and outward movement is not weakness — it’s the essence of being fully alive. As the Quran teaches, transformation begins not from external acts, but from “what is within the self” (إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ). And every night, by surrendering — as Lawrence says, “Here dies the man I am” — we are invited to be reborn. Not in performance, but in presence.
There is something universally sacred about this rhythm: descent into silence, followed by emergence into light. It’s not just human biology — it’s spiritual architecture.
A journey into the adventures beyond Earth...its what brought the alien beings here to build the known and unknown structures here before the ice melted and reshaped the world. It's what gives us the heroes of space travel and the thirst for knowledge that some would deny us.
If first man had stayed within the compound we would not exist. If new ways of living are not found we will not exist.
When is the one time we truly come together? It's when we challenge ourselves...when we need to work together to survive. Do you think Russian, Chinese, Japanese and American space explorers don't work together, even as their countrymen and women die down here.
No. We need to look beyond the Earth, even in our dreams.
Thank you for enlightening my soul’s journey. I have always loved Lawrence but never read this but now I better understand my connection to him. Unfortunately I am retired and am on low fixed income.
I lie wrapped in a lily leaf, like a cocoon;
I lie to you not, for when I close my eyes,
I fly high, all the way to the Moon.
I land in dreams of wanderers and lunatics (they're called),
And I feel the call of what used to be a magnetic wall—
Now a tidal pull for connection, and
I flow or float back onto our Earth,
Wrapped in collective hope.
Lawrence has always interested me. His perspectives, while sometimes incredibly dark, are deep and rich and layered with all the nuances that make up humanity.
D.H.Lawrence always a favorite of mine. Especially Women in Love. davpi3.14
This reflection by D.H. Lawrence deeply resonates with the Quranic worldview, which treats the cycle of day and night not merely as physical phenomena, but as profound spiritual rhythms meant to recalibrate the soul.
The night, described in the Quran as “a time of stillness” (سُباتًا) and “a covering” (لِباسًا), is not just the absence of light — it is the return to the center. A sacred inward motion where the soul disengages from the noise of the world and reorients itself. In this way, Lawrence’s notion of returning to the “very center” mirrors the Quranic call to seek presence and realignment in the silence of the night.
Likewise, the day is for action (مَعاشًا) — but action alone, without inward renewal, becomes empty. Automatism, as Lawrence warned, is precisely what the Quran warns against: living without reflection, drifting without remembrance, functioning without soul.
The balance between inner stillness and outward movement is not weakness — it’s the essence of being fully alive. As the Quran teaches, transformation begins not from external acts, but from “what is within the self” (إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ). And every night, by surrendering — as Lawrence says, “Here dies the man I am” — we are invited to be reborn. Not in performance, but in presence.
There is something universally sacred about this rhythm: descent into silence, followed by emergence into light. It’s not just human biology — it’s spiritual architecture.
I write and post a simple piece of prose..then I come here and read what you have posted, or one of yours and I edit edit edit...not that it helps.
Wow, this couldn’t have been more timely for me. Thank you for that. Keep following that Muse! The Spirit blows where it will….
Nietzsche? Never met the bloke. I just know that the stars are around us and part of us, attracting us like a magnet.
If we were all the same...
A journey into the adventures beyond Earth...its what brought the alien beings here to build the known and unknown structures here before the ice melted and reshaped the world. It's what gives us the heroes of space travel and the thirst for knowledge that some would deny us.
If first man had stayed within the compound we would not exist. If new ways of living are not found we will not exist.
When is the one time we truly come together? It's when we challenge ourselves...when we need to work together to survive. Do you think Russian, Chinese, Japanese and American space explorers don't work together, even as their countrymen and women die down here.
No. We need to look beyond the Earth, even in our dreams.
As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
― Nietzsche