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Looking southeast down the twisting spine of the beautiful coast range ~ Mountains through the open door - of the seminar lodge. SCQGUstla seminar \, 4 & Oy ae EEPLY WROUGHT into the natuce of man is his craving for orientation — for knowledge of the right direction. A secure sense of meaning for his life is essential to his mental und physical health, ‘The more sophisticated, the more macure 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 10 find and understand him- self has nevet been more forcibly pointed up by the facts of history than now. Nor has man ever been in greater need of help in his attempt to accomplish this task. Each of us feels the individual necd for values that can command oue loyalty and principles to guide our choices, for understanding of the nature of ourselves and our relitions with the universe about us. Sequoia Semi non-profit, non-denominational educational enterprise, attempts to provi environment in which this search for orientation can be effectively carried out. The physical environment is provided by a secluded camp in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains of Califoinia. The psychological environment, even more impartant, is that of group living and of searching in free and epea discussion under stimulating and capable leadership. The Quest For Meaning However we phrase it—the quest for meaning, the search for oricnsativn, the pursuic of self fulfillmens, the realization of our highest potentialities—surely this is the one task in life that matters. Other goals come and yo, ate artzined or ubandone in favor of some higher goal. But che goal of finding and moving in the right direction, of growing toward our true nature, the 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 that we may come to perceive more clearly the necd for a surer guide than the egocentric goals so casily absorbed from our culture. eM