| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: those beautiful religious doctrines which we have
received from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chi-
nese, and Greek antiquity. The two great prin-
ciples of Jesus: love of God--in a word absolute
perfection--and love of one's neighbour, that is
to say, love of all men without distinction, have
been preached by all the sages of the world--
Krishna, Buddha, Lao-tse, Confucius, Socrates,
Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and among
the moderns, Rousseau, Pascal, Kant, Emerson,
Channing, and many others. Religious and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: and the doctor, smoking fat cigarettes, and Lizaveta Petrovna
with a firm, resolute, reassuring face, and the old prince
walking up and down the hall with a frowning face. But why they
came in and went out, where they were, he did not know. The
princess was with the doctor in the bedroom, then in the study,
where a table set for dinner suddenly appeared; then she was not
there, but Dolly was. Then Levin remembered he had been sent
somewhere. Once he had been sent to move a table and sofa. He had
done this eagerly, thinking it had to be done for her sake, and
only later on he found it was his own bed he had been getting
ready. Then he had been sent to the study to ask the doctor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: joint of fact, in the rude, unvarnished gibes with which he demolished
every figment of defence. He took his ease and jested, unbending in
that solemn place with some of the freedom of the tavern; and the rag of
man with the flannel round his neck was hunted gallowsward with jeers.
Duncan had a mistress, scarce less forlorn and greatly older than
himself, who came up, whimpering and curtseying, to add the weight of
her betrayal. My lord gave her the oath in his most roaring voice, and
added an intolerant warning.
"Mind what ye say now, Janet," said he. "I have an e'e upon ye, I'm ill
to jest with."
Presently, after she was tremblingly embarked on her story, "And what
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