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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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43. childhood home-environment might have been of a wrong nature for my temperament - those surroundings in which every moment was made to count and diligence and industry were consciously practiced. Should I have been benefitted physically had I escaped more of the rigorous teaching of the [illegible] and not been so thoroughly grounded in all kinds of work? Might it not have been good discipline for me to have been trained and had learned somewhere along the line just to be indolent and relax? I wonder! but it seems doubtful. Having been born with a great restlessness it probably would have been impossible to have done much with the material at hand to have shaped it differently from the way in which it has been molded. And never having been able to be inert and dream, I have not been able to cultivate the great virtue of the East, the admirable quality of idleness and a philosophy of contemplation. All my ideas are converted into action. Those conceptions which gradually take form, tucked away as they are in the back of the mind, or even in the subconscious, where you yourself or no one else is aware that they lie hidden
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43. childhood home-environment might have been of a wrong nature for my temperament - those surroundings in which every moment was made to count and diligence and industry were consciously practiced. Should I have been benefitted physically had I escaped more of the rigorous teaching of the [illegible] and not been so thoroughly grounded in all kinds of work? Might it not have been good discipline for me to have been trained and had learned somewhere along the line just to be indolent and relax? I wonder! but it seems doubtful. Having been born with a great restlessness it probably would have been impossible to have done much with the material at hand to have shaped it differently from the way in which it has been molded. And never having been able to be inert and dream, I have not been able to cultivate the great virtue of the East, the admirable quality of idleness and a philosophy of contemplation. All my ideas are converted into action. Those conceptions which gradually take form, tucked away as they are in the back of the mind, or even in the subconscious, where you yourself or no one else is aware that they lie hidden
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