| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Enswath'd, and seal'd to curious secrecy.
These often bath'd she in her fluxive eyes,
And often kiss'd, and often 'gan to tear;
Cried, 'O false blood, thou register of lies,
What unapproved witness dost thou bear!
Ink would have seem'd more black and damned here!'
This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,
Big discontent so breaking their contents.
A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh,
Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew
Of court, of city, and had let go by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: The same exclusive tastes prevail among the slayers. Let us
remember, in this connection, Philanthus apivorus {35} and,
especially, the Thomisus, the comely Spider who cuts Bees' throats.
They understand the fatal blow, either in the neck or under the
chin, a thing which the Epeira does not understand; but, just
because of this talent, they are specialists. Their province is
the Domestic Bee.
Animals are a little like ourselves: they excel in an art only on
condition of specializing in it. The Epeira, who, being
omnivorous, is obliged to generalize, abandons scientific methods
and makes up for this by distilling a poison capable of producing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: own (only) by freedom from action and purpose.
2. How do I know that it is so? By these facts:--In the kingdom the
multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of the
people; the more implements to add to their profit that the people
have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more
acts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange
contrivances appear; the more display there is of legislation, the
more thieves and robbers there are.
3. Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the
people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping
still, and the people will of themselves become correct. I will take
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