| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: society man."
The Editor exclaimed at so much modesty. Didn't his friend know
that he was their one and only explorer - that he was the man
experimenting with the silk plant. . . .
"Still, that doesn't tell me why I was invited yesterday. For
young Dunster never thought of this civility before. . . ."
"Our Willie," said the popular journalist, "never does anything
without a purpose, that's a fact."
"And to his uncle's house too!"
"He lives there."
"Yes. But he might have given me a feed somewhere else. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: of her children; and it is I who fetch them from school and take them
back; and each time she gives me five francs,--a real great lady
couldn't do better than that. And every time I have any one in the
coach belonging to them or going to see them, I'm allowed to drive up
to the chateau,--that's all right, isn't it?"
"They say Monsieur Moreau wasn't worth three thousand francs when
Monsieur le comte made him steward of Presles," said the valet.
"Well, since 1806, there's seventeen years, and the man ought to have
made something at any rate."
"True," said the valet, nodding. "Anyway, masters are very annoying;
and I hope, for Moreau's sake, that he has made butter for his bread."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: of the Emptiness of Forms,-- that is to say, of the unreal character of all
phenomena or noumena... "Form is emptiness; and emptiness is form.
Emptiness is not different from form; form is not different from emptiness.
What is form -- that is emptiness. What is emptiness -- that is form...
Perception, name, concept, and knowledge, are also emptiness... There is no
eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind... But when theenvelopment of
consciousness has been annihilated, then he [the seeker] becomes free from
all fear, and beyond the reach of change, enjoying final Nirvana."
OSHIDORI
[1] From ancient time, in the Far East, these birds have been regarded as
emblems of conjugal affection.
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