| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: think he was safe from pursuit, having gained the summit of the
swelling eminence which divides Wolf's Crag from the village,
when he heard the distant tread of a horse, and a voice which
shouted at intervals, "Mr. Caleb--Mr. Balderstone--Mr. Caleb
Balderstone--hollo--bide a wee!"
Caleb, it may be well believed, was in no hurry to
acknowledge the summons. First, he would not heart it, and faced
his companions down, that it was the echo of the wind; then he
said it was not worth stopping for; and, at length, halting
reluctantly, as the figure of the horseman appeared through the
shades of the evening, he bent up his whole soul to the task of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: understanding concerning God. The Greeks, then, professing
themselves to be wise, fell into greater folly than the
Chaldeans, alleging the existence of many gods, some male, others
female, creators of all passions and sins of every kind.
Wherefore the Greeks, O king, introduced an absurd, foolish and
ungodly fashion of talk, calling them gods that were not,
according to their own evil passions; that, having these gods for
advocates of their wickedness, they might commit adultery, theft,
murder and all manner of iniquity. For if their gods did so, how
should they not themselves do the like? Therefore from these
practices of error it came to pass that men suffered frequent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: property. He turned towards the Rue Vivienne to find Derville, his
solicitor, and institute proceedings at once, in case the lawyer
should see any chance of annulling the agreement. He found Derville
sitting by the fire, wrapped in a white woollen dressing-gown, calm
and composed in manner, like all lawyers long used to receiving
terrible confidences. Birotteau noticed for the first time in his life
this necessary coldness, which struck a chill to the soul of a man
grasped by the fever of imperilled interests,--passionate, wounded,
and cruelly gashed in his life, his honor, his wife, his child, as
Cesar showed himself to be while he related his misfortunes.
"If it can be proved," said Derville, after listening to him, "that
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