| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: fingers were not quite as steady as they might have been. Still,
in a moment they appeared to become surer in their work. She
had beautiful hands, not too large, though certainly not small,
and they were strong, brown, supple. He observed next, with
stealthy, upward-stealing glance, that she had rolled up her sleeves,
exposing fine, round arms graceful in line. Her skin was brown--no,
it was more gold than brown. It had a wonderful clear tint. Dick
stoically lowered his eyes then, putting off as long as possible
the alluring moment when he was to look into her face. That would
be a fateful moment. He played with a certain strange joy
of anticipation. When, however, she sat down beside him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: confusion. After their many labours after godliness, one day
Barlaam called to him his spiritual son, whom he had begotten
through the Gospel, and opened his mouth to discourse of
spiritual things, saying, "Long ago, dearly beloved Ioasaph, was
it destined that thou shouldest dwell in this wilderness; and, in
answer to my prayer for thee, Christ promised me that I should
see it before the ending of my life. I have seen my desire: I
have seen thee severed from the world and the concerns of the
world, united to Christ, thy mind never wavering, and come to the
measure of the perfection of his fulness. Now therefore as the
time of my departure is at the door, and seeing that my desire,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory
note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of
honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro
people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient
funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is
bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds
in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have
come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand
the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also
come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce
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