| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: adore the while. They believe in God, and in the last day, and bid
what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, and vie in charity;
these are among the righteous.
What ye do of good surely God will not deny, for God knows those who
fear.
Verily, those who misbelieve, their wealth is of no service to them,
nor their children either, against God; they are the fellows of the
Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye.
The likeness of what they expend in this life of the world, is as
the likeness of wind wherein is a cold blast that falls upon a
people's tilth who have wronged themselves and destroys it. It is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: that continued on down the river could hardly have much effect on
the jam.
The work was breathless in its speed. From one to another sweat-
bathed, panting man the logs were handed on. As yet only the
advance of the big jam had arrived at the dredged channel.
Orde looked about him and realised this.
"We can't keep this up when the main body hits us," he panted to his
neighbour, Jim Denning. "We'll have to do some more pile-driver
work."
He made a rapid excursion to the boom camp, whence he returned with
thirty or forty of the men who had given up work on the jam below.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: completely glutted his appetites that pleasure must overpass the
limits of pleasure to tickle a palate cloyed with satiety, and
suddenly grown fastidious beyond all measure, so that ordinary
pleasures became distasteful. Conscious that at will he was the master
of all the women that he could desire, knowing that his power was
irresistible, he did not care to exercise it; they were pliant to his
unexpressed wishes, to his most extravagant caprices, until he felt a
horrible thirst for love, and would have love beyond their power to
give.
The world refused him nothing save faith and prayer, the soothing and
consoling love that is not of this world. He was obeyed--it was a
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