Spirit as Energy

When poking around on the Society for ORganizational Learning website (www.solonline.org) i came across an article written by Diana Whitney entitled, Spirituality as a Global Organizing Potential. Delightfully, she included different poems to illustrate the different aspects of Spirit. This is the one she selected to illustrate spirit as energy by D.H. Lawrence.

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,

and when we escape like squirrels turning in the

caste of our personality

and get into the forests again,

we shall shiver with cold and fright

but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves.

Cool, unlying life will rush in,

and passion will make our bodies taut with power

we shall stamp our feet with new power

and old things will fall down,

we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

D.H. Lawrence