| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: "That you did not marry her!" she murmured exultingly.
"And I knew it was because you loved me best, and couldn't
do it....Damon, you have been cruel to me to go away,
and I have said I would never forgive you. I do not think
I can forgive you entirely, even now--it is too much for a
woman of any spirit to quite overlook."
"If I had known you wished to call me up here only
to reproach me, I wouldn't have come."
"But I don't mind it, and I do forgive you now that you
have not married her, and have come back to me!"
"Who told you that I had not married her?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: mind of crowds. The most redoubtable idols do not dwell in
temples, nor the most despotic tyrants in palaces; both the one
and the other can be broken in an instant. But the invisible
masters that reign in our innermost selves are safe from every
effort at revolt, and only yield to the slow wearing away of
centuries.
3. TIME
In social as in biological problems time is one of the most
energetic factors. It is the sole real creator and the sole
great destroyer. It is time that has made mountains with grains
of sand and raised the obscure cell of geological eras to human
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: it would be utter destruction.
Such a force there is, however; and it is called Godhead. The
mysterious thing we call life organizes itself into all living
shapes, bird, beast, beetle and fish, rising to the human marvel
in cunning dwarfs and in laborious muscular giants, capable,
these last, of enduring toil, willing to buy love and life, not
with suicidal curses and renunciations, but with patient manual
drudgery in the service of higher powers. And these higher powers
are called into existence by the same selforganization of life
still more wonderfully into rare persons who may by comparison be
called gods, creatures capable of thought, whose aims extend far
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