The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: to have created a rational soul, and to have annexed it to this body in a
particular manner which I described.
But, in order to show how I there handled this matter, I mean here to give
the explication of the motion of the heart and arteries, which, as the
first and most general motion observed in animals, will afford the means
of readily determining what should be thought of all the rest. And that
there may be less difficulty in understanding what I am about to say on
this subject, I advise those who are not versed in anatomy, before they
commence the perusal of these observations, to take the trouble of getting
dissected in their presence the heart of some large animal possessed of
lungs (for this is throughout sufficiently like the human), and to have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: of dress, reckless charges of colour and stubborn resistances of
cut, wondrous encounters in which the art of the toilet seemed to
lay down its life. She had the tread of a grenadier and the voice
of an angel.
In the course of a walk with her the day after my arrival I found
myself grabbing her arm with sudden and undue familiarity. I had
been struck by the beauty of a face that approached us and I was
still more affected when I saw the face, at the sight of my
companion, open like a window thrown wide. A smile fluttered out
of it an brightly as a drapery dropped from a sill--a drapery
shaken there in the sun by a young lady flanked by two young men, a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Merciful One, ask concerning Him of One who is aware.
And when it is said, 'Adore ye the Merciful!' they say, 'What is the
Merciful? shall we adore what thou dost order us?' and it only
increases their aversion.
Blessed be He who placed in the heavens zodiacal signs, and placed
therein the lamp and an illuminating moon!
And He it is who made the night and the day alternating for him
who desires to remember or who wishes to be thankful.
And the servants of the Merciful are those who walk upon the earth
lowly, and when the ignorant address them, say, 'Peace!' And those who
pass the night adoring their Lord and standing; and those who say,
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