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Now, he is not afraid of me. He is afraid of the unknown. He is afraid of giving fully his abilities and commitment to what he does not thoroughly comprehend. There is an old religious hangover here from the Catholic background. Give us a moment.

His problem is precisely this: the need and ability to throw himself whole-heartedly and spontaneously into a creative endeavor, and the fear of doing so.

The next one will be to use the abilities that he will then be free to use, correctly. Without the past challenge, or one like it, the various elements of the personality would not be sufficiently united, strong enough, to carry the abilities that have been latent within it.

This also applies to yourself. It often applies to those whose abilities, in your terms, come to fruition later rather than earlier in life. (Pause.) It is not a point of how much better it would be had the abilities matured earlier. The abilities, of whatever power or strength, are a part of you; they are not something objective that you possess. Nor can you compare them to the abilities of others.

A young man can misuse and misunderstand his own abilities if they are stronger than the other personality frameworks that compose his identity. Many of your own experiences have strengthened your abilities. Your experiences did not prevent you from using them—the abilities—any more than they helped you form them.

You could have chosen not to develop these latent abilities at all. You could have developed other latent abilities in their stead. You settled upon your particular life situation with certain problems and challenges in mind. In helping Ruburt free and use his own strong spontaneous nature, you also free your own spontaneous self. That particular problem then is also a challenge and a way of development for you both.

The situation when it is settled will result in perhaps the best possible one for both of you, from all standpoints, and such would not be possible had you taken a simpler way. The opportunity to use your abilities therefore is greater. The problems that you have encountered lead to inner recognition and understandings that add to the quality of your work, and actually improve the nature of the abilities themselves.