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(To Florence.) I have another point to make to our Lady of Florence though not the point that you particularly want me to make. There is indeed a reason why you have been involved with personalities who have taken their own lives, and I want you to take this to heart. I want you to realize where skepticism and disbelief can lead when an individual carries them to the ultimate. When personalities act upon deep disbelief they encounter hopelessness. Your own personality is set up with strongly contrasting elements, as you yourself know. You are lead strongly toward the search for purpose, and you look deeply toward the meaning of reality and existence. At the same time, however, you are also frightened of committing yourself to your belief and acting upon it wholeheartedly. You chose to become involved in your circle of acquaintanceships with those who have followed one particular line to the ultimate, where belief disappears like the shifting sand until there is no framework upon which the present personality can stand and until, in desperation, the individual leaves this plane of existence where on another level of reality purposes are then made known.
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