1 result for (book:tps3 AND heading:"delet session march 15 1976" AND stemmed:deni)
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chores
policy
distraction
refreshing
agitation
[... 14 paragraphs ...]
To some extent you do not trust your own creativity enough, but think that it is so weak that it will be destroyed or dissipated by the slightest distraction. You become so worried for it that you can overprotect it, and deny it its natural resiliency and power. When you want to work, do so, for as long as you feel like it, committed to it freely, having decided then that for that time, nothing will be allowed to interfere.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Then you do not resent the afternoon rackets, but accept neighborhood noises as the world’s activity, and it becomes—though you will not believe me—a refreshing and needed counterpoint. Otherwise you find yourselves never fully pleased with what you are doing while you are doing it, and caught up in circles of resentment. You deny yourselves, say, guests when you feel like having them, because you have already done chores that did not particularly need to be done, because you thought you should, when you felt like working.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]