| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: various processes an individual may be brought into such a
condition that, having entirely lost his conscious personality,
he obeys all the suggestions of the operator who has deprived him
of it, and commits acts in utter contradiction with his character
and habits. The most careful observations seem to prove that an
individual immerged for some length of time in a crowd in action
soon finds himself--either in consequence of the magnetic
influence given out by the crowd, or from some other cause of
which we are ignorant--in a special state, which much resembles
the state of fascination in which the hypnotised individual finds
himself in the hands of the hypnotiser. The activity of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: law.
PSA 119:86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me
wrongfully; help thou me.
PSA 119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not
thy precepts.
PSA 119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the
testimony of thy mouth.
PSA 119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
PSA 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast
established the earth, and it abideth.
PSA 119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for
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