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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: this awakening of intelligence and the hour of her fall into the clutches
of primitive passion.
That morning she faced herself in the mirror and asked, "Now--what do I owe
you?" It was not her voice that answered. It was beyond her. But it said:
"Go on! You are cut adrift. You are alone. You owe none but yourself! . . .
Go on! Not backward--not to the depths--but up--upward!"
She shuddered at such a decree. How impossible for her! All animal, all
woman, all emotion, how could she live on the cold, pure heights? Yet she
owed something intangible and inscrutable to herself. Was it the thing that
woman lacked physically, yet contained hidden in her soul? An element of
eternal spirit to rise! Because of heartbreak and ruin and irreparable loss
The Call of the Canyon | 
