Interviewer: You haven’t had time to consider this question before I’ve put it to you: what to you in life is really important? What really matters to you? What’s the significance of your everyday experiences, and how do you transmute them into a framework that to you makes sense of your place in the world and the world itself?

Roy: What drives me most is to really consider ‘what am I?’ and what is my relationship to this world and the universe. What would really drive me most after considering it for some time (ruminates)…. I’ve often thought the thing I would like more than anything else is absolute, if there’s any absolute to it, is peace of mind because peace of mind is accepting what is there and beginning to understand what is not. I think challenging my own beliefs about the universe, challenging what I think, what I read, to really better understand what am I, this human being that I call myself, a human being…. Where am I going? If all I do in my life is achieve a state of absolute peace of mind, that would be enough because I think that everything else – all the understandings – will come out of that. The only way I can see to having absolute peace of mind is when I look in a child’s eyes before he has really grown to consider the world for himself; he’s just in that state of Joy there’s a kind of peace of mind they have. I would like to find that again, having challenged my life through all