| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: forgot the fish, but it was only Satan who made me forget it, lest I
should remember it; and it took its way in the sea wondrously!'
Said he, 'This is what we were searching for.' So they turned back
upon their footsteps, following them up.
Then they found a servant of our servants, to whom we had given
mercy from ourselves, and had taught him knowledge from before us.
Said Moses to him, 'Shall I follow thee, so that thou mayest teach me,
from what thou hast been taught, the right way?' said he, 'Verily,
thou canst never have patience with me. How canst thou be patient in
what thou comprehendest no knowledge of?' He said, 'Thou wilt find me,
if God will, patient; nor will I rebel against thy bidding.' He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: disjoin their forces from the camp of the Kings of Frangistan,
and even to lend their arms to the defence of the standard of the
Prophet. But Saladin will not be served by such treacherous and
interested defection. The king of kings will treat only with the
Lion King. Saladin will hold treaty with none but the Melech
Ric, and with him he will treat like a prince, or fight like a
champion. To Richard he will yield such conditions of his free
liberality as the swords of all Europe could never compel from
him by force or terror. He will permit a free pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, and all the places where the Nazarenes list to
worship; nay, he will so far share even his empire with his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: to her lips and a puzzled, worried look in her eyes, deaf to all
this riot of warmth and flitting desire, was playing
Patience--playing Patience, as if Dionysius and her curate had
died together. A faint buzz above the ceiling witnessed that
petrography, too, was active. Gray and tranquil world! Amazing,
passionless world! A world in which days without meaning, days
in which "we don't want things to happen" followed days without
meaning--until the last thing happened, the ultimate,
unavoidable, coarse, "disagreeable." It was her last evening in
that wrappered life against which she had rebelled. Warm reality
was now so near her she could hear it beating in her ears. Away
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