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“I thought that life was a gracious gift, and that we were ‘given’ the natural world along with it. I’ve always been grateful for that. I felt that each person had a purpose, but I didn’t think you had to search for it, because I naturally wanted to write; and that was my purpose. I never questioned it.”
(Pause.) For various reasons already given, concerning your joint relationship, and your own purposes (to me), it has taken some time for a newer, suitable framework to form itself — one in which Ruburt is free to pursue mystic experience in a practical structure; one in which unconventionality of thought is allowed to continue freely. [...]
He could not accept a new framework, and he dared not let the old one go, so the symptoms became the physical materialization of these conflicts, and served many purposes. [...]