| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: leave their business in order. "I'm not sure you understood.
You've nothing to wait for more. It HAS come."
Oh how he looked at her! "Really?"
"Really."
"The thing that, as you said, WAS to?"
"The thing that we began in our youth to watch for."
Face to face with her once more he believed her; it was a claim to
which he had so abjectly little to oppose. "You mean that it has
come as a positive definite occurrence, with a name and a date?"
"Positive. Definite. I don't know about the 'name,' but, oh with
a date!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: know that there is somebody in Europe whom she loves to
distraction?"
"I do not know it," said Philip.
"Of course you do not KNOW it," returned the questioner. "Do
you not think it?"
"I have no reason to believe it."
"That has nothing to do with it," said Kate. "Things that we
believe without any reason have a great deal more weight with
us. Do you not believe it?"
"No," said Philip, point-blank.
"It is very strange," mused Kate. "Of course you do not know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
The Clod of Clay heard the Worms voice & rais'd her pitying head:
She bowd over the weeping infant, and her life exhald
In milky fondness, then on Thel she fix'd her humble eyes
O beauty of the vales of Har, we live not for ourselves,
Thou seest me the meanest thing, and so I am indeed:
My bosom of itself is cold, and of itself is dark,
But he that loves the lowly, pours his oil upon my head
And kisses me, and binds his nuptial bands around my breast.
And says; Thou mother of my children, I have loved thee
And I have given thee a crown that none can take away.
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