| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: I always said that a man must really be weak in his intellect to work
for men that stuff themselves with millions, and to serve them so
faithfully for such low wages. And now here he gives me another proof
of his stupidity! Yes, men deserve what they get. It is your own doing
whether you get a crown on your forehead or a bullet through your
head; whether you are a millionaire or a porter, justice is always
done you. I cannot help it, my dear fellow; I myself am not a king, I
stick to my principles. I have no pity for those that put me to
expense or do not know their business as creditors.--Suzon! my tea! Do
you see this gentleman?' he continued when the man came in. 'Well, you
have allowed yourself to be taken in, poor old boy. This gentleman is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Well, the fact is--the truth of the matter is that I'm staying with
some people up here in Greenwich, and they rather expect me to be with
them to-morrow. In fact, there's a sort of picnic or something.
Of course I'll do my very best to get away."
I ejaculated an unrestrained "Huh!" and he must have heard me, for he went
on nervously:
"What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. Iwonder if
it'd be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You
see, they're tennis shoes, and I'm sort of helpless without them. My
address is care of B. F.----"
I didn't hear the rest of the name, because I hung up the receiver.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: blend of appetite and preference; it may be almost pure greed; it
may have scarcely any devotion nor be a whit self-forgetful nor
generous. It is possible so to phrase things that the furtive
craving of a man for another man's wife may be made out to be a
light from God. Yet about all the better sorts of love, the sorts
of love that people will call "true love," there is something of
that same exaltation out of the narrow self that is the essential
quality of the knowledge of God.
Only while the exaltation of the love passion comes and goes, the
exaltation of religious passion comes to remain. Lovers are the
windows by which we may look out of the prison of self, but God is
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