Author, D. H. Lawrence once wrote of man’s capacity to delineate between life’s littler and deeper needs. His intention was to share a grounded truth, insight into the necessity of leading an impassioned life.

“Man has little needs and deeper needs.” he shares. “We’ve fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs til we have lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.”

In this passage, he reminds us of the necessity to align our hearts with the nature of this universe. To lead from the starting point of ‘purpose.’

“Let us prepare now,” he urges “for the death of our little life and reemergence in a bigger life in touch with the moving cosmos. We must get back into relation through daily ritual. We must practice again the daily ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, of kindling fire and pouring water, for the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs. We are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal. Sources that flow eternally in the universe. Vitally the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”

So often we are distracted from the fullness of this life. We mistake the experience of an immediate happiness, with the prospect of a longer lasting inner peace. We forget that true joy requires a wholeness of being.

It’s these littler things, my loves ~ which help to transcend the barrier between heart and logic. May we all know the peace of sitting before the fire.

“All that matters is to be at one with the living God
to be a creature in the house of the God of Life.

Like a cat asleep on a chair
at peace, in peace
and at one with the master of the house, with the mistress,
at home, at home in the house of the living,
sleeping on the hearth, and yawning before the fire.

Sleeping on the hearth of the living world
yawning at home before the fire of life
feeling the presence of the living God
like a great reassurance
a deep calm in the heart
a presence
as of the master sitting at the board
in his own and greater being,
in the house of life.” ~ “Pax”, by D. H. Lawrence