| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: contemplate with perfect freedom the curve of her cheek, her
small ear half hidden by the clear mesh of fine hair, the
fascination of her uncovered neck. And her whole person was an
impossible, an amazing and solid marvel which somehow was not so
much convincing to the eye as to something within him that was
apparently independent of his senses. Not even for a moment did
he think of her as remote. Untouchable--possibly! But remote--no.
Whether consciously or unconsciously he took her spiritually for
granted. It was materially that she was a wonder of the sort that
is at the same time familiar and sacred.
"No," Mrs. Travers began again, abruptly. "I never forgot myself
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: In that life one occasion, one moment, there was
When this earnestness might, with the life-sap of youth,
Lusty fruitage have borne in his manhood's full growth;
But it found him too soon, when his nature was still
The delicate toy of too pliant a will,
The boisterous wind of the world to resist,
Or the frost of the world's wintry wisdom.
He miss'd
That occasion, too rathe in its advent.
Since then,
He had made it a law, in his commerce with men,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: that the people might not have the pleasure of ridiculing our
mysteries by profaning the vessels made use of in the celebration of
them, for they now would gladly treat with the highest indignities
what they had a year before looked upon with veneration.
Amidst all these perplexities the viceroy did not fail to visit us,
and make us great offers of service in expectation of a large
present. We were in a situation in which it was very difficult to
act properly; we knew too well the ill intentions of the viceroy,
but durst not complain, or give him any reason to imagine that we
knew them. We longed to retreat out of his power, or at least to
send one of our company to the Indies with an account of persecution
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