This is a long diary entry by Anais Nin, and there are several points which struck me:
- she still has an obsession about having an expanded life. She rebels against mediocrity and wants a life in depth.
- she is wondering if she is well, saying she cannot pretend lightness, realizing she must have a desire to get well in order to actually get well.
- she has found ways to lighten, minimize, and accelerate housework. She has more energy for it when she doesn't fret over it. She wants to rid the house of all nonessentials. She doesn't want her energy resources to be drained by work on the house and garden.
- she reflects on Henry Miller who never strained, took everything as it came, made no efforts, did not feel responsible.
- she says we select our vision of the world by selecting what we see, record, observe. She says it's your choice; you create the vision.
- she wants an artist's life with few possession, simple surroundings, a simple way of life requiring little money and little compromise. She dreams of a simple, uncomplicated economic life, with finances in the background, not the foreground. She says it takes courage to live this way, committed to no one, subjected to no restrictions.
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