The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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 For a moment he lay thus, and then, again, he was conscious of being called. But he knew now that he heard not with his physical but with his soul’s ear. For a moment he lay thus, and then, again, he was conscious of being called. But he knew now that he heard not with his physical but with his soul’s ear.
  
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 He lay without motion, while a flood of peace rose in his soul, overflowed his mind, and saturated his body. It was a sensation absolutely unprecedented in his whole life experience. There was an inexpressible sense of harmony, of serenity, of happiness possessing him to the exclusion of every anxiety. And with increasing wonder he realized that for the first time since conscious thought began with him, he was not lonely. NEVER TO BE LONELY AGAIN! That which was imprisoned in the poor frame of Abraham Lincoln had envisaged its real identity—had sighted its true home. HAPPINESS!—this then was Happiness! Its other name was GOD!” He lay without motion, while a flood of peace rose in his soul, overflowed his mind, and saturated his body. It was a sensation absolutely unprecedented in his whole life experience. There was an inexpressible sense of harmony, of serenity, of happiness possessing him to the exclusion of every anxiety. And with increasing wonder he realized that for the first time since conscious thought began with him, he was not lonely. NEVER TO BE LONELY AGAIN! That which was imprisoned in the poor frame of Abraham Lincoln had envisaged its real identity—had sighted its true home. HAPPINESS!—this then was Happiness! Its other name was GOD!”
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