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This passage always reminds me of his poem Nothing to Save:

"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,

but a tiny core of stillness in the heart

like the eye of a violet."

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I dunno, I wasn't in Lawrence's skin. I had string of very deep relationships with very different (from each other) women. The first 3 relationships were mainstream. The last 5, the women, as well as I, were in direct contact with realms beyond the human realm. I seriously doubt religious people experienced anything close to what we experienced, nor could they have comprehended or coped with it. I imagine religious people would have looked funny at us, if we had told them what we were experiencing. One of the 5 was very religious. The other 4 were on their own unique journeys. We were chewed up pretty good by our journeys. Maybe we met different dragons than the one Lawrence met? Those 5 women, and the 3women before them, each seemed to open something new in me, which I didn't know was there. I could view each of those relationships as a different life that I lived. And there was the life before them, and the life now, when I probably am too old to tango, waltz, jitterbug, tango, mamba, rumba, disco dance, country dance, etc. with women.

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