| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: Korea, which seemed to him a land fully a century behind the times.
Night overtook him while speeding across the Sea of Japan, and having
a great desire to view the Mikado's famous islands, he put the
indicator at zero, and, coming to a full stop, composed himself to
sleep until morning, that he might run no chances of being carried
beyond his knowledge during the night.
You might suppose it no easy task to sleep suspended in mid-air, yet
the magnetic currents controlled by the traveling machine were so
evenly balanced that Rob was fully as comfortable as if reposing upon
a bed of down. He had become somewhat accustomed to passing the night
in the air and now slept remarkably well, having no fear of burglars
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: clouds crawled round his dark pine-forests, and his caps of
summer snow. And their hearts yearned for the dear old
mountain, as they thought of pleasant days gone by, and of
the sports of their boyhood, and their hunting, and their
schooling in the cave beneath the cliff. And at last Peleus
spoke, 'Let us land here, friends, and climb the dear old
hill once more. We are going on a fearful journey; who knows
if we shall see Pelion again? Let us go up to Cheiron our
master, and ask his blessing ere we start. And I have a boy,
too, with him, whom he trains as he trained me once - the son
whom Thetis brought me, the silver-footed lady of the sea,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: delighted her sister, of saying too much what he thought on
every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances.
In hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people,
in sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment
of undivided attention where his heart was engaged,
and in slighting too easily the forms of worldly propriety,
he displayed a want of caution which Elinor could not approve,
in spite of all that he and Marianne could say in its support.
Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation
which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever
seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection,
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