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[... 38 paragraphs ...]
Now I have adopted this measure simply because it is impossible to speak to each of you individually with any depth or meaning, but (to Valerie) I want you to realize that you are not alone, and that isolation is a manufactured thing. You manufacture it in your mind. It has no meaning in any terms. You will learn to feel it and not simply accept it intellectually, but you must begin to tell yourself emotionally that you are not isolated, and you must divorce yourself from self-pity.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
([Mark:] “Then if you have a responsibility it should be an opportunity to develop yourself, not a self-sacrifice?”)
You should never attempt to deny yourself at the expense of another, but if you fully realize the nature of your identity this would never seem necessary.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
You must try this on your own. It is your challenge. And to solve it for you says to you that you cannot do it by yourself and encourages you to look for others rather than to yourself for the answer.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
What Ruburt told you applies, but those instructions must be carried through completely. And you can do it. You do direct your own thoughts. You can control them, you can stop the conscious worrying. When you find yourself worrying about this matter, tell yourself, instead, that there is nothing to worry about, that the answer is within you. See your mind within your mind as a clear sky or a blank board upon which the answers will come. Now be assured that the answers will show themselves there for they are there now. And simply relax and see what is already written. The answer has been there, in your terms, long before you requested it. And it is there now. Simply allow yourself to see the answer and freely accept it. And let the turmoil go.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]