conscious-activity

Updated: May 19, 2025

Birds, which live by flight, impelled from the strong conscious-activity of the breast and shoulders, have become for us symbols of the spirit, the upper mode of consciousness. Their legs have become idle, almost insentient twigs. Only the tail flirts from the center of the sensual will. But their singing acts direct upon the upper, or spiritual centers in us.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Fantasia of the Unconscious