| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: whereof forgiveness is offered us by reason of the loving-
kindness of Christ, who for our sins shed his precious blood. In
many places of Scripture we are taught the power of repentance,
and especially by the precepts and parables of our Lord Jesus
Christ. For it saith, `From that time began Jesus to preach and
to say, "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."'
Moreover he setteth before us, in a parable, a certain son that
had received his father's substance, and taken his journey into a
far country, and there spent all in riotous living. Then, when
there arose a famine in that land, he went and joined himself to
one of the citizens of that land of iniquity, who sent him into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: on which rested the cone proper of the crater.
Three thousand two hundred feet below us stretched the sea. We had
passed the limit of perpetual snow, which, on account of the moisture
of the climate, is at a greater elevation in Iceland than the high
latitude would give reason to suppose. The cold was excessively keen.
The wind was blowing violently. I was exhausted. The Professor saw
that my limbs were refusing to perform their office, and in spite of
his impatience he decided on stopping. He therefore spoke to the
hunter, who shook his head, saying:
"_Ofvanför._"
"It seems we must go higher," said my uncle.
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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: sorry for the situation. Of course this thing was absolutely
impossible. But she was disturbed, mysteriously disturbed. She
remembered abruptly that she was really living upon his money.
She leaned forward and addressed him.
"Mr. Ramage," she said, "please don't talk like this."
He made to speak and did not.
"I don't want you to do it, to go on talking to me. I don't want
to hear you. If I had known that you had meant to talk like this
I wouldn't have come here."
"But how can I help it? How can I keep silence?"
"Please!" she insisted. "Please not now."
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