| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: himself morally inferior he felt terrified at this stage to use
them to such an angel.
'It is thanks to you that I have come to know myself. I have
learnt that I am better than I thought.'
'I have known that for a long time. That was why I began to love
you.'
Nightingales trilled near by and the fresh leafage rustled, moved
by a passing breeze.
He took her hand and kissed it, and tears came into his eyes.
She understood that he was thanking her for having said she loved
him. He silently took a few steps up and down, and then
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "Oh, for God's sake, drop that preaching. It makes me sick!" broke
out Newmark.
Orde smiled whimsically.
"I'm not preaching," he said; "and even if I were, I've paid a good
many thousands of dollars, it seems, to buy the right to say what I
damn please. And if you think I'm working up to a Christian
forgiveness racket, you're very much mistaken. I'm not. I don't
forgive you; and I surely despise your sort. But I'm explaining to
you--no, to myself--just what I've been at for three days."
"Well, turn me over to your sheriff, and let's get through with
this," said Newmark sullenly. "I suppose you've got that part of it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: and down hills, all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred
feet above ground, and by these they can travel even at night if
necessary. Two of the strongest monkeys caught Mowgli under the
arms and swung off with him through the treetops, twenty feet at a
bound. Had they been alone they could have gone twice as fast,
but the boy's weight held them back. Sick and giddy as Mowgli was
he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of
earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and
jerk at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air brought
his heart between his teeth. His escort would rush him up a tree
till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under
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