| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: be in three persons. He made me see it so clearly that I
remained as extremely surprised as I was comforted, . . . and
now, when I think of the holy Trinity, or hear It spoken of, I
understand how the three adorable Persons form only one God and I
experience an unspeakable happiness."
On still another occasion, it was given to Saint Teresa to see
and understand in what wise the Mother of God had been assumed
into her place in Heaven.[257]
[257] Loc. cit., p. 574
The deliciousness of some of these states seems to be beyond
anything known in ordinary consciousness. It evidently involves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: humanity eager to see the trouble, the noise of their footsteps
was already dying in the distance.
Hawkes found his friend leaning against the back of the hack, his
revolver smoking in his hand.
"For God's sake, Val!" screamed Hawkes. "Did they get you?"
"Punctured my leg. That's all. But I expect they'll get Dailey."
"How come you to go out when I signaled you to stay?"
"Signaled me to stay, why--"
Collins stopped, unwilling to blame his friend. He knew now that
Hawkes, having mixed his drinks earlier in the evening, had mixed
his signals later.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: earned, all these are wells of pleasure springing afresh for
the successful poor; and it is not from these but from the
villa-dweller that we hear complaints of the unworthiness of
life. Much, then, as the average of the proletariat would
gain in this new state of life, they would also lose a
certain something, which would not be missed in the
beginning, but would be missed progressively and
progressively lamented. Soon there would be a looking back:
there would be tales of the old world humming in young men's
ears, tales of the tramp and the pedlar, and the hopeful
emigrant. And in the stall-fed life of the successful ant-
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