| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Immersed in the mountains, and put out the light
Which no longer they needed to read on the face
Of each other life's last revelation.
The place
Slept sumptuous round them; and Nature, that never
Sleeps, but waking reposes, with patient endeavor
Continued about them, unheeded, unseen,
Her old, quiet toil in the heart of the green
Summer silence, preparing new buds for new blossoms,
And stealing a finger of change o'er the bosoms
Of the unconscious woodlands; and Time, that halts not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: Then, if there are to be others, there is something than which they will be
other?
Certainly.
And what can that be?--for if the one is not, they will not be other than
the one.
They will not.
Then they will be other than each other; for the only remaining alternative
is that they are other than nothing.
True.
And they are each other than one another, as being plural and not singular;
for if one is not, they cannot be singular, but every particle of them is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: horrors of that awful way.
The bones of dead men lay man high upon the broad floor of the
first cave, and over all was a putrid mush of decaying flesh,
through which the apts had beaten a hideous trail toward the
entrance to the second cave beyond.
The roof of this first apartment was low, like all that we
traversed subsequently, so that the foul odors were confined
and condensed to such an extent that they seemed to possess
tangible substance. One was almost tempted to draw his
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