"This is What I Believe..."

[alivemagdolene]

“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.”

---D.H. Lawrence

Comments

[meaculpa-g.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I LOVE D.H. Lawrence.

[aybara-max.livejournal.com]

dear sweet mother, I adore that picture to pieces. I took a similar picture (http://twitpic.com/5t8kk) recently that I want to make into a background for my lj.

D.H. Lawrence. Your good taste knows no bounds :-)

[alivemagdolene.livejournal.com]

Damn, your picture's gorgeous!!!

I swiped and resized that pic from a wallpaper site since it seemed so apropos to the quote (one of my Pagan LJ comms posted that recently and I remembered how much I loved the quote, thus my sharing). The original pic I resized is here (http://wallpapers.graphicfreebies.com/detail.html?1024-tree3) if you'd like to snatch it. ^_^