| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: began by burning openly the books of Galen and Avicenna, and
declared that all the old knowledge was useless. Doctors and
students alike must begin over again with him. The dons were
horrified. To burn Galen and Avicenna was as bad as burning the
Bible. And more horrified still were they when Paracelsus began
lecturing, not in the time-honoured dog-Latin, but in good racy
German, which everyone could understand. They shuddered under their
red gowns and hats. If science was to be taught in German, farewell
to the Galenists' formulas, and their lucrative monopoly of
learning. Paracelsus was bold enough to say that he wished to break
up their monopoly; to spread a popular knowledge of medicine. "How
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: far as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had
been made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre's story of what
he had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he
listened not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what
Pierre was telling him.
Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend's company
and at last became silent.
"I'll tell you what, my dear fellow," said Prince Andrew, who
evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, "I
am only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am
going back to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: of man are identically the same, and so are one. They differ not
in essence or quality; they differ in degree.
"The great central fact in human life is the coming into a
conscious vital realization of our oneness with this Infinite
Life and the opening of ourselves fully to this divine inflow.
In just the degree that we come into a conscious realization of
our oneness with the Infinite Life, and open ourselves to this
divine inflow, do we actualize in ourselves the qualities and
powers of the Infinite Life, do we make ourselves channels
through which the Infinite Intelligence and Power can work. In
just the degree in which you realize your oneness with the
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