The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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 ==== THE SEEKER ==== ==== THE SEEKER ====
 === An Allegory === === An Allegory ===
 By Cerena I. Driscoll By Cerena I. Driscoll
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 FOR LONG years a pilgrim had traveled over many roads, through smiling, open country, over dangerous mountain paths into verdant, contented valleys, through bleak and cheerless desert lands; and always he had been seeking, seeking—he knew not what. Sometimes he seemed to have found what he sought in a life of pleasure, or in a beloved companionship, or in an inspiring personality who pointed him to new countries; only to be cast again with discouragement, disillusionment, unhappiness. FOR LONG years a pilgrim had traveled over many roads, through smiling, open country, over dangerous mountain paths into verdant, contented valleys, through bleak and cheerless desert lands; and always he had been seeking, seeking—he knew not what. Sometimes he seemed to have found what he sought in a life of pleasure, or in a beloved companionship, or in an inspiring personality who pointed him to new countries; only to be cast again with discouragement, disillusionment, unhappiness.
  
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 He pointed to a bank of white clouds which as He spoke lifted, and there the pilgrim beheld a land of mystical beauty, great vistas of green covered hills, bedecked with gorgeous flowers, splendid palaces, pilgrims robed in spotless white, singing anthems of praise and thanksgiving. He pointed to a bank of white clouds which as He spoke lifted, and there the pilgrim beheld a land of mystical beauty, great vistas of green covered hills, bedecked with gorgeous flowers, splendid palaces, pilgrims robed in spotless white, singing anthems of praise and thanksgiving.
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