| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: for God does not guide unjust folk.
Or like him who passed by a village, when it was desolate and turned
over on its roofs, and said, 'How will God revive this after its
death?' And God made him die for a hundred years, then He raised
him, and said, 'How long hast thou tarried?' Said he, 'I have
tarried a day, or some part of a day.' He said, 'Nay, thou hast
tarried a hundred years; look at thy food and drink, they are not
spoiled, and look at thine ass; for we will make thee a sign to men.
And look at the bones how we scatter them and then clothe them with
flesh.' And when it was made manifest to him, he said, 'I know that
God is mighty over all.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: was not hypocrisy, there was no one further from a hypocrite. The girl
had been taught to behave: to look up, to look down, to look
unconscious, to look seriously impressed in church, and in every
conjuncture to look her best. That was the game of female life, and she
played it frankly. Archie was the one person in church who was of
interest, who was somebody new, reputed eccentric, known to be young,
and a laird, and still unseen by Christina. Small wonder that, as
she stood there in her attitude of pretty decency, her mind should run
upon him! If he spared a glance in her direction, he should know she
was a well-behaved young lady who had been to Glasgow. In reason he
must admire her clothes, and it was possible that he should think her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: child. No, it elected to grow up, which it did. And in these
twenty-seven years it has learned all the deep scientific learning
there is to learn, and is studying and studying and learning and
learning more and more, all the time, and don't give a damn for
anything BUT learning; just learning, and discussing gigantic
problems with people like herself."
"Well?"
"Stormfield, don't you see? Her mother knows CRANBERRIES, and how
to tend them, and pick them, and put them up, and market them; and
not another blamed thing! Her and her daughter can't be any more
company for each other NOW than mud turtle and bird o' paradise.
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