| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: thing! She passed along by, with her head down, that way, and the
tears running down her face, and didn't see us. Then Sandy said,
low and gentle, and full of pity:
"SHE'S hunting for her child! No, FOUND it, I reckon. Lord, how
she's changed! But I recognized her in a minute, though it's
twenty-seven years since I saw her. A young mother she was, about
twenty two or four, or along there; and blooming and lovely and
sweet? oh, just a flower! And all her heart and all her soul was
wrapped up in her child, her little girl, two years old. And it
died, and she went wild with grief, just wild! Well, the only
comfort she had was that she'd see her child again, in heaven -
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: matter. Here we arrive at a Gnostic conception, which the
Philonists of Alexandria were not slow to appropriate. The Logos,
or divine Reason, was identified with the Sophia, or divine
Wisdom of the Jewish Gnostics, which had dwelt with God before
the creation of the world. By a subtle play upon the double
meaning of the Greek term (logos = "reason" or "word"), a
distinction was drawn between the divine Reason and the divine
Word. The former was the archctypal idea or thought of God,
existing from all eternity; the latter was the external
manifestation or realization of that idea which occurred at the
moment of creation, when, according to Genesis, God SPOKE, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank
accounts.
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a
blacksmith.
ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter
hanged to a lamppost.
ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.
God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
_The Unauthorized Version_
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom
it greatly affects in turn.
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