Can someone explain this quote by D.H Lawrence?

Question

Lawrence writes to Ernest Collings (Jan 1913):

'I conceive a man's body as a kind of flame forever upright and yet flowing: and the intellect is just the light that is shed into the things around us. And I am not so much concerned with things around: - which is really mind; - but with the mystery of the flame forever flowing…. and being itself.'

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In his writings, D.H.Lawrence emphasizes nature's supremacy over civilization. According to him, modernity and 'excessive mind' have been derogatory on human beings. He uses sexuality to symbolize human nature, essence of being. In the quotation, he refers to man's sexuality and considers it superior to mind/civilization.