| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: three times. The only foundation for it was that Miss Anvoy, who
used, poor girl, to chuck money about in a manner she must now
regret, had for an hour seen in the miserable woman--you could
never know what she'd see in people--an interesting pretext for the
liberality with which her nature overflowed. But even Miss Anvoy
was now quite tired of her. Gravener told me more about the crash
in New York and the annoyance it had been to him, and we also
glanced here and there in other directions; but by the time we got
to Doncaster the principal thing he had let me see was that he was
keeping something back. We stopped at that station, and, at the
carriage-door, some one made a movement to get in. Gravener
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: fulfil the course of this mine earthly pilgrimage in thy true
Faith, and in the way of thy commandments. And now, thou lover
of good, all-merciful Master, receive me into thine everlasting
habitations; and remember not all the sins that I have committed
against thee, in knowledge or in ignorance. Defend also this thy
faithful servant, before whom thou hast granted to me, thine
unprofitable servant, to stand. Deliver him from all vanity, and
all despiteful treatment of the adversary, and set him clear of
the many-meshed nets which the wicked one spreadeth abroad for to
trip all them that would full fain be saved. Destroy, Almighty
Lord, all the might of the deceiver from before the face of thy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: slowly the machine obeyed and carried him away from the plateau and
across the island.
The natives saw him go, and springing to their feet began uttering
excited shouts and throwing their spears at him. But he was already
so high and so far away that they failed to reach him, and the boy
continued his journey unharmed.
Once the branches of a tall tree caught him and nearly tipped him
over; but he managed to escape others by drawing up his feet. At
last he was free of the island and traveling over the ocean again. He
was not at all sorry to bid good-by to the cannibal island, but he was
worried about the machine, which clearly was not in good working
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