| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: FIRST MAN. Death is not a god. He is only the servant of the gods.
MYRRHINA. He is the only god I am afraid of. Ye have seen many of
the gods?
FIRST MAN. We have seen many of them. One sees them chiefly at
night time. They pass one by very swiftly. Once we saw some of the
gods at daybreak. They were walking across a plain.
MYRRHINA. Once as I was passing through the market place I heard a
sophist from Cilicia say that there is only one God. He said it
before many people.
FIRST MAN. That cannot be true. We have ourselves seen many,
though we are but common men and of no account. When I saw them I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: and he even caught himself feeling grateful to Madame Bontems, who, by
implanting so deeply the principles of religion, had in some degree
inured her to meet the troubles of life.
On the day named for signing the inevitable contract, Madame Bontems
made her son-in-law pledge himself solemnly to respect her daughter's
religious practices, to allow her entire liberty of conscience, to
permit her to go to communion, to church, to confession as often as
she pleased, and never to control her choice of priestly advisers. At
this critical moment Angelique looked at her future husband with such
pure and innocent eyes, that Granville did not hesitate to give his
word. A smile puckered the lips of the Abbe Fontanon, a pale man, who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: scattered, he devoted himself to the significance of that
declivity which he felt to be there but could not see. Nor was he
long in arriving at a correct conclusion. In the nature of
things, he figured, man is lazy. He does no more than he has to.
When he builds a cabin he must put dirt on the roof. From these
premises it was logical that he should carry that dirt no further
than was absolutely necessary. Therefore, he lay upon the edge of
the hole from which the dirt had been taken to roof Jacob Kent's
cabin. This knowledge, properly utilized, might prolong things,
he thought; and he then turned his attention to the moose-hide
thongs which bound him. His hands were tied behind him, and
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