| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: Also whatever fragrant things there now are in the earth, whether roots, or
herbage, or woods, or essences which distil from fruit and flower, grew and
thrived in that land; also the fruit which admits of cultivation, both the
dry sort, which is given us for nourishment and any other which we use for
food--we call them all by the common name of pulse, and the fruits having a
hard rind, affording drinks and meats and ointments, and good store of
chestnuts and the like, which furnish pleasure and amusement, and are
fruits which spoil with keeping, and the pleasant kinds of dessert, with
which we console ourselves after dinner, when we are tired of eating--all
these that sacred island which then beheld the light of the sun, brought
forth fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance. With such blessings the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: hinder us as far as they can; and not only strangers, but father and
mother, and the friend, if there be one, who is dearer still, will also
hinder us; and we shall be subject to others; and these things will not be
ours, for we shall not be benefited by them. Do you agree?
He assented.
And shall we be friends to others, and will any others love us, in as far
as we are useless to them?
Certainly not.
Neither can your father or mother love you, nor can anybody love anybody
else, in so far as they are useless to them?
No.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: first sharp weather came on and there was a comfort in warm
emanations, before Chevet's wonderful succulent window. Morgan
wanted to hear all about the opulent youth - he took an immense
interest in him. Some of the details of his opulence - Pemberton
could spare him none of them - evidently fed the boy's appreciation
of all his friend had given up to come back to him; but in addition
to the greater reciprocity established by that heroism he had
always his little brooding theory, in which there was a frivolous
gaiety too, that their long probation was drawing to a close.
Morgan's conviction that the Moreens couldn't go on much longer
kept pace with the unexpended impetus with which, from month to
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