| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: the confusion of that impious Court will be advantageous to you
and to your welfare, and to many others with you. Those who do
harm to her are doing your office; those who in every way abhor
her are glorifying Christ; in short, those are Christians who are
not Romans.
But, to say yet more, even this never entered my heart: to
inveigh against the Court of Rome or to dispute at all about her.
For, seeing all remedies for her health to be desperate, I looked
on her with contempt, and, giving her a bill of divorcement, said
to her, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that
is filthy, let him be filthy still," giving myself up to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: quiet. The charred timbers of the balcony lay where they had
fallen. It was evident that since the fire the builders had not
returned to their work. The magnolia had unfolded a few more
sculptural flowers; the view was undisturbed.
It was hard for Mrs. Manstey to breathe; each moment it grew more
difficult. She tried to make them open the window, but they
would not understand. If she could have tasted the air, sweet
with the penetrating ailanthus savor, it would have eased her;
but the view at least was there--the spire was golden now, the
heavens had warmed from pearl to blue, day was alight from east
to west, even the magnolia had caught the sun.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: offended.
"Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of
her voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing
to laugh at a subterfuge which is not without cleverness. I know many
women who would be taken in by it: 'Heavens! how he loves me!' they
would say."
Here the marquise gave a forced laugh, and then added, in a tone of
indulgence:--
"If we desire to continue friends let there be no more MISTAKES, of
which it is impossible that I should be the dupe."
"Upon my honor, madame, you are so--far more than you think," replied
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