| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: understanding when it recognizes its affiliation with the
Whole, and glories in an individuality which is an
expression both of itself AND of the whole. The human
child at its mother's knee probably comes first to know it
HAS a 'self' on some fateful day when having wandered
afar it goes lost among alien houses and streets or in the
trackless fields. That appalling experience--the sense of
danger, of fear, of loneliness--is never forgotten; it stamps
some new sense of Being upon the childish mind, but that
sense, instead of being destroyed, becomes all the prouder
and more radiant in the hour of return to the mother's arms.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: to Shakespeare's Sonnets that has ever been made. It is complete
in every detail. I believe in Willie Hughes.'
'Don't say that,' said Erskine gravely; 'I believe there is
something fatal about the idea, and intellectually there is nothing
to be said for it. I have gone into the whole matter, and I assure
you the theory is entirely fallacious. It is plausible up to a
certain point. Then it stops. For heaven's sake, my dear boy,
don't take up the subject of Willie Hughes. You will break your
heart over it.'
'Erskine,' I answered, 'it is your duty to give this theory to the
world. If you will not do it, I will. By keeping it back you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: happy, the folly or vice of one makes many miserable."
"If such be the general effect of marriage," said the Prince, "I
shall for the future think it dangerous to connect my interest with
that of another, lest I should be unhappy by my partner's fault."
"I have met," said the Princess, "with many who live single for
that reason, but I never found that their prudence ought to raise
envy. They dream away their time without friendship, without
fondness, and are driven to rid themselves of the day, for which
they have no use, by childish amusements or vicious delights. They
act as beings under the constant sense of some known inferiority
that fills their minds with rancour and their tongues with censure.
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