| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: Are you afraid of life? You of all people! What does it matter
what has been or what we were? Here we are with the world before
us! Start clean and new with me. We'll fight it through! I'm
not such a simple lover that I'll not tell you plainly when you
go wrong, and fight our difference out with you. It's the one
thing I want, the one thing I need--to have you, and more of you
and more! This love-making--it's love-making. It's just a part
of us, an incident--"
She shook her head and stopped me abruptly. "It's all," she
said.
"All!" I protested.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: wild and magnificent scenery of Corehouse Linn.
I went up to the house. It was in that state of desertion which
is perhaps the most unpleasant to look on, for the place was
going to decay without having been inhabited. There were about
the mansion, though deserted, none of the slow mouldering touches
of time, which communicate to buildings, as to the human frame, a
sort of reverence, while depriving them of beauty and of
strength. The disconcerted schemes of the Laird of Castle
Treddles had resembled fruit that becomes decayed without ever
having ripened. Some windows broken, others patched, others
blocked up with deals, gave a disconsolate air to all around, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 20: 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;
Ezekiel 20: 38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against Me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20: 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD: Go ye, serve every one his idols, even because ye will not hearken unto Me; but My holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
Ezekiel 20: 40 For in My holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve Me in the land; there will I accept them, and there will I require your heave-offerings, and the first of your gifts, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 20: 41 With your sweet savour will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 20: 42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I lifted up My hand to give unto your fathers.
Ezekiel 20: 43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have commi 
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