| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: when it seemed impossible that every one should not believe it;
and young Peter McCarren, peering, listening, questioning,
jotting down notes, inspired him with an exquisite sense of
security. McCarren had fastened on the case at once, "like a
leech," as he phrased it--jumped at it, thrilled to it, and
settled down to "draw the last drop of fact from it, and had not
let go till he had." No one else had treated Granice in that
way--even Allonby's detective had not taken a single note. And
though a week had elapsed since the visit of that authorized
official, nothing had been heard from the District Attorney's
office: Allonby had apparently dropped the matter again. But
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: birds that pass overhead sometimes when we lie in the shade of a tree.
It would have been vain to try to check the hapless shade in his
blasphemy. It is one of the griefs of the angels of darkness that they
can never see the light even when they are surrounded by it. He would
not have understood us."
At this moment the swift approach of many horses rang through the
stillness, the dog barked, the constable's deep growl replied; the
horsemen dismounted, knocked at the door; the noise was so unexpected
that it seemed like some sudden explosion.
The two exiles, the two poets, fell to earth through all the space
that divides us from the skies. The painful shock of this fall rushed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: our fellow-servants we are ourselves delivered from the wrath of
our Master. Again, a lack of compassion towards them that
trespass against us maketh our own trespasses unpardonable, even
as thou hast heard what befell the man that owed ten thousand
talents, how, through his want of pity on his fellow-servant, he
was again required to pay all that mighty debt. So we must take
good heed lest a like fate betide us. But let us forgive every
debt, and cast all anger out of our hearts, in order that our
many debts, too, may be forgiven. Beside this, and before all
things, keep thou that good thing which is committed to thy
trust, the holy Word of faith wherein thou hast been taught and
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