| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Said he, 'My Lord! how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and
I have reached through old age to decrepitude?'
He said, 'Thus says thy Lord, It is easy for Me, for I created
thee at first when yet thou wast nothing.'
Said he, 'O my Lord! make for me a sign. He said, 'Thy sign is
that thou shalt not speak to men for three nights (though) sound.'
Then he went forth unto his people from the chamber, and he made
signs to them: 'Celebrate (God's) praises morning and evening!'
O John! take the Book with strength; and we gave him judgment when a
boy, and grace from us, and purity; and he was pious and righteous
to his parents, and was not a rebellious tyrant.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: scouring at his hair. Suddenly he slapped a thigh.
"Come on," he cried, "I've an idea!" He was already half-way down
the steps, when Blix called him back.
"Leave it all to me," he assured her; "trust me IMPLICITLY. Don't
you want to go?" he demanded with abrupt disappointment.
"Want to!" she exclaimed. "Why, it would be the very best kind of
fun, but--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: they did not know it was the lost Country of the Blind, nor
distinguish it in any way from any other narrow streak of upland
valley. Unnerved by this disaster, they abandoned their attempt in
the afternoon, and Pointer was called away to the war before he
could make another attack. To this day Parascotopetl lifts an
unconquered crest, and Pointer's shelter crumbles unvisited amidst
the snows.
And the man who fell survived.
At the end of the slope he fell a thousand feet, and came down
in the midst of a cloud of snow upon a snow-slope even steeper than
the one above. Down this he was whirled, stunned and insensible,
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