Anais Nin rents a little Japanese teahouse in San Francisco. She feels she can work better here where she is "not dissolved in nature." She says, "I remember D.H. Lawrence complaining that nature was too powerful in Mexico, that is swallowed one. If I lived there, would the need to write disappear? When the external world matches our need, our hunger, our inner world, might not the need to create cease? Morocco did that. It made me contemplative, content with a spectacle of life so vivid that it stilled all needs. Would a mere change of culture put an end to our restlessness, our dissatisfaction, our need to create what is not there?"
Anais wonders when creation and life will fuse for her and when she will be equally at ease in both.
It has been said that artists create in order to create a world in which they can live because they are uncomfortable or unhappy in the world as it exists. They create an outer world that matches their inner world. Have you done this in your life?
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