| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: eyes; but a sudden fear stayed his tongue. If he told all
it would be necessary to reveal certain details that he
could not bring himself to reveal to anyone, and so he
commenced with his introduction to the wayfarers in the
deserted hay barn. Briefly he told of the attack upon
him, of his shooting of Dopey Charlie, of the flight and
pursuit. "And now," he said in conclusion, "that you
know I'm a murderer I suppose you won't have any
more to do with me, unless you turn me over to the
authorities to hang." There was almost a sob in his voice,
so real was his terror.
The Oakdale Affair |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: could say nothing, my heart was too full to speak,
for at first I did not know what to do. However
we knew it would never do to turn back to the
"City of Destruction," like Bunyan's Mistrust and
Timorous, because they saw lions in the narrow
way after ascending the hill Difficulty; but press
on, like noble Christian and Hopeful, to the great
city in which dwelt a few "shining ones." So, after
a few moments, I did all I could to encourage my
companion, and we stepped out and made for the
office; but how or where my master obtained
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: nothing of the market price of precious stones or the costly
splendour of rare orchids. The thing that pleases her is the thing
that she will hold fast. And yet I do not doubt that the most
important things are always the best remembered; only we must learn
that the real importance of what we see and hear in the world is to
be measured at last by its meaning, its significance, its intimacy
with the heart of our heart and the life of our life. And when we
find a little token of the past very safely and imperishably kept
among our recollections, we must believe that memory has made no
mistake. It is because that little thing has entered into our
experience most deeply, that it stays with us and we cannot lose
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