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Lee ~ Looking southeast down the twisting spine of the beautiful coast range mountains through the Open door - of the seminar lod ge. SCQGUSGIA SCIWiMAK hy re LER am EEPLY WROUGHT into the nature of man is his craving for oricntation— iz: for knowledge of the right direction, A secure sense of meaning for his life is essenzial co his menral und physical health. The more sophisticuted, the more masure he is, the more firmly grounded in reality must be his view of his own nature and hence his concept of his own goal, The urgency of man’s need and ultimate task to find and understand him- self has never been more forcibly pointed up by the facts of history than now. Nor has man ever been in greater need of help in his atrempt to accomplish this task. Each of us feels the individual necd for values that can command our loyalty and principles to guide our choices, for underscanding of the nature of ourselves and our relicions with the universe ubour us. Sequoia Seminar, 2 non-profit, non-denominationat educational enterprise, attempts to provide an environment in which this search for orientation can be effectis ely carricd out. The physical environment is provided by a secluded camp in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. The psychological environment, even more important, is that of group living and of searching in free and cpen discussion under stimulating and capable leadership. The Quest For Meaning However we phrase it—the quest for meaning, the search for oricntation, the pursuit of self fulfillmens, the realization of our highest potcntauities—-surely this is che one task in life that matters. Other goals come and vo, are attuined or abandoned in favor of some higher goal. But the goal of finding and moving in the righe direction, of growing toward our true nature, che highest we can become, remains ever before us. In fact, it is as we attain lesser goals and discover they fail to give deep inner satisfaction thar we may come to perceive more clearly the necd for a surer guide than the egocentric goals so casily absorbed from our culture.