| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: off from this beautiful tree the tall broad green leaves which are its
poetic adornment, and used them to mend the mat on which he was to
sleep.
Fatigued by the heat and his work, he fell asleep under the red
curtains of his wet cave.
In the middle of the night his sleep was troubled by an extraordinary
noise; he sat up, and the deep silence around allowed him to
distinguish the alternative accents of a respiration whose savage
energy could not belong to a human creature.
A profound terror, increased still further by the darkness, the
silence, and his waking images, froze his heart within him. He almost
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: easily seen by anyone coming into the place. Then, ordering some
rum and water and a pipe of tobacco, he composed himself to watch
for the appearance of those witty fellows whom he suspected would
presently come thither to see the end of their prank and to enjoy
his confusion.
The spot was pleasant enough; for the land breeze, blowing strong
and full, set the leaves of the palm tree above his head to
rattling and clattering continually against the sky, where, the
moon then being about full, they shone every now and then like
blades of steel. The waves also were splashing up against the
little landing place at the foot of the garden, sounding very
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Certainly.
And the same argument holds of each part, for the part must participate in
the one; for if each of the parts is a part, this means, I suppose, that it
is one separate from the rest and self-related; otherwise it is not each.
True.
But when we speak of the part participating in the one, it must clearly be
other than one; for if not, it would not merely have participated, but
would have been one; whereas only the itself can be one.
Very true.
Both the whole and the part must participate in the one; for the whole will
be one whole, of which the parts will be parts; and each part will be one
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