| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: shape of weddings and suppers. When he was in the provinces, the
correspondents in the smaller towns made much of him; in Paris, the
great houses feted and caressed him. Welcomed, flattered, and fed
wherever he went, it came to pass that to breakfast or to dine alone
was a novelty, an event. He lived the life of a sovereign, or, better
still, of a journalist; in fact, he was the perambulating "feuilleton"
of Parisian commerce.
His name was Gaudissart; and his renown, his vogue, the flatteries
showered upon him, were such as to win for him the surname of
Illustrious. Wherever the fellow went,--behind a counter or before a
bar, into a salon or to the top of a stage-coach, up to a garret or to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: Zikali's threat, on reflection I agreed with her.
"Tell me, Mr. Quatermain," she added, "is it possible for one
woman to be in love with another?"
I stared at her and replied that I did not understand what she
meant, since women, so far as I had observed them, were generally
in love either with a man or with themselves, perhaps more often
with the latter than the former. Rather a cheap joke I admit,
with just enough truth in it to make it acceptable--in the Black
Kloof.
"So I thought," she answered, "but really Nombe behaves in a most
peculiar way. As you know she took a fancy to me from the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: identified with some great and universal being lifted far over
this mortal world and unaffected by its storms? Is it not
obvious that the real Self MUST be something of this nature,
a being perceiving all, but itself remaining unperceived? For
indeed if it were perceived it would fall under the head of some
definable quality, and so becoming the object of thought would
cease to be the subject, would cease to be the Self.
The witness is and must be "free from qualities." For
since it is capable of perceiving ALL qualities it must obviously
not be itself imprisoned or tied in any quality--it must either
be entirely without quality, or if it have the potentiality of
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