| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: twist! No more twist!" And they
barred up the window-shutters and
shut out Simpkin.
Simpkin came away from the shop
and went home considering in his
mind. He found the poor old tailor
without fever, sleeping peacefully.
Then Simpkin went on tip-toe and
took a little parcel of silk out of the
tea-pot; and looked at it in the
moonlight; and he felt quite ashamed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: is for "suggestive," not for logical reasons: we follow the
majority because to do so suits our life.
But even this presumption from the unanimity of mystics is far
from being strong. In characterizing mystic states an
pantheistic, optimistic, etc., I am afraid I over-simplified the
truth. I did so for expository reasons, and to keep the closer
to the classic mystical tradition. The classic religious
mysticism, it now must be confessed, is only a "privileged case."
It is an EXTRACT, kept true to type by the selection of the
fittest specimens and their preservation in "schools." It is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: fortunes to such a man!'
'I have such confidence in him, aunt, notwithstanding all you say,
that I would willingly risk my happiness for the chance of securing
his. I will leave better men to those who only consider their own
advantage. If he has done amiss, I shall consider my life well
spent in saving him from the consequences of his early errors, and
striving to recall him to the path of virtue. God grant me
success!'
Here the conversation ended, for at this juncture my uncle's voice
was heard from his chamber, loudly calling upon my aunt to come to
bed. He was in a bad humour that night; for his gout was worse.
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