| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: world; the tall, old man was to invest them with glory; the lad felt
them in himself, though he could in no way express them. The three
represented in living embodiment Science, Poetry, and Feeling.
On going into the house, the Exile shut himself into his room, lighted
the inspiring lamp, and gave himself over to the ruthless demon of
Work, seeking words of the silence and ideas of the night. Godefroid
sat down in his window sill, by turns gazing at the moon reflected in
the water, and studying the mysteries of the sky. Lost in one of the
trances that were frequent to him, he traveled from sphere to sphere,
from vision to vision, listening for obscure rustlings and the voices
of angels, and believing that he heard them; seeing, or fancying that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,
Down by the banks of the river we go.
Here is a mill with the humming of thunder,
Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,
Here is the sluice with the race running under--
Marvellous places, though handy to home!
Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller,
Stiller the note of the birds on the hill;
Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller,
Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill.
Years may go by, and the wheel in the river
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: what the central self discards or rejects as incompatible
with the fixed design of righteousness.
To make this admission is to lay aside all hope of
definition. That which is right upon this theory is
intimately dictated to each man by himself, but can never be
rigorously set forth in language, and never, above all,
imposed upon another. The conscience has, then, a vision
like that of the eyes, which is incommunicable, and for the
most part illuminates none but its possessor. When many
people perceive the same or any cognate facts, they agree
upon a word as symbol; and hence we have such words as TREE,
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