| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: In sole though feeble mastery.
III. Lessons
Unless I learn to ask no help
From any other soul but mine,
To seek no strength in waving reeds
Nor shade beneath a straggling pine;
Unless I learn to look at Grief
Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes,
And take from Pleasure fearlessly
Whatever gifts will make me wise --
Unless I learn these things on earth,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: Westerveld didn't know that. What should a retired and
well-to-do farmer of fifty-eight know of nerves, especially when
he has moved to the city and is taking it easy?
If only he knew what time it was. Here in Chicago you couldn't
tell whether it was four o'clock or seven unless you looked at
your watch. To do that it was necessary to turn on the light.
And to turn on the light meant that he would turn on, too, a
flood of querulous protest from his wife, Bella, who lay asleep
beside him.
When for forty-five years of your life you have risen at
four-thirty daily, it is difficult to learn to loll. To do it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: known what good it would have done me to live two nights longer, you
would have lived, solely to please me, my poor sister! Ah, Jeanne!
thirteen hundred thousand crowns! Won't that wake you?--No, she is
dead!"
Thereupon, he sat down, and said no more; but two great tears issued
from his eyes and rolled down his hollow cheeks; then, with strange
exclamations of grief, he locked up the room and returned to the king.
Louis XI. was struck with the expression of sorrow on the moistened
features of his old friend.
"What is the matter?" he asked.
"Ah! sire, misfortunes never come singly. My sister is dead. She
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