| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: THEAETETUS: True.
STRANGER: They deny this, and say that the power of doing or suffering is
confined to becoming, and that neither power is applicable to being.
THEAETETUS: And is there not some truth in what they say?
STRANGER: Yes; but our reply will be, that we want to ascertain from them
more distinctly, whether they further admit that the soul knows, and that
being or essence is known.
THEAETETUS: There can be no doubt that they say so.
STRANGER: And is knowing and being known doing or suffering, or both, or
is the one doing and the other suffering, or has neither any share in
either?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: how I was ever to return to common life again. She said she
thought if we went over to the restaurant across the street and
had an ice cream it might help me. That sounded so prosaic; but
to my surprise I found it true. The ice cream was delicious,
Marilla, and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there
eating it at eleven o'clock at night. Diana said she believed
she was born for city life. Miss Barry asked me what my opinion
was, but I said I would have to think it over very seriously
before I could tell her what I really thought. So I thought it
over after I went to bed. That is the best time to think things out.
And I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: of such deep soundings and such strange confidences. He throbbed
indeed with the conflict of his feelings - bewilderment and
recognition and alarm, enjoyment and protest and assent, all
commingled with tenderness (and a kind of shame in the
participation) for the sores and bruises exhibited by so fine a
creature, and with a sense of the tragic secret nursed under his
trappings. The idea of HIS, Paul Overt's, becoming the occasion of
such an act of humility made him flush and pant, at the same time
that his consciousness was in certain directions too much alive not
to swallow - and not intensely to taste - every offered spoonful
of the revelation. It had been his odd fortune to blow upon the
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