| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Slowly over the earth
The wings of night are falling;
My heart like the bird in the tree
Is calling, calling, calling.
Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love --
It answered me with silence,
Silence above.
I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go --
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: ACT I
[Summer afternoon in a cottage garden on the eastern slope of a
hill a little south of Haslemere in Surrey. Looking up the hill,
the cottage is seen in the left hand corner of the garden, with
its thatched roof and porch, and a large latticed window to the
left of the porch. A paling completely shuts in the garden,
except for a gate on the right. The common rises uphill beyond
the paling to the sky line. Some folded canvas garden chairs are
leaning against the side bench in the porch. A lady's bicycle is
propped against the wall, under the window. A little to the
right of the porch a hammock is slung from two posts. A big
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: added), that you yourself, albeit quite unconscious of the fact,
already know a vast amount about the subject. The fact is, other
craftsmen (the race, I mean, in general of artists) are each and all
disposed to keep the most important[11] features of their several arts
concealed: with husbandry it is different. Here the man who has the
most skill in planting will take most pleasure in being watched by
others; and so too the most skilful sower. Ask any question you may
choose about results thus beautifully wrought, and not one feature in
the whole performance will the doer of it seek to keep concealed. To
such height of nobleness (he added), Socrats, does husbandry appear,
like some fair mistress, to conform the soul and disposition of those
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