| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: although you despise us, defraud, steal, and rob, we will indeed manage
to endure your haughtiness, suffer, and, according to the Lord's
Prayer, forgive and show pity; for we know that the godly shall
nevertheless have enough, and you injure yourself more than another.
But beware of this: When the poor man comes to you (of whom there are
so many now) who must buy with the penny of his daily wages and live
upon it, and you are harsh to him, as though every one lived by your
favor, and you skin and scrape to the bone, and, besides, with pride
and haughtiness turn him off to whom you ought to give for nothing, he
will go away wretched and sorrowful, and since he can complain to no
one he will cry and call to heaven, -- then beware (I say again) as of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: as the finite from infinity. You still walk the earth, whilst I range
the heavens! Your sphere is human, mine divine! Love crowned me queen,
you reign by reason and duty. So lofty are the regions where I soar,
that a fall would shiver me to atoms.
But no more of this. I shrink from painting to you the rainbow
brightness, the profusion, the exuberant joy of love's springtime, as
we know it.
For ten days we have been in Paris, staying in a charming house in the
Rue du Bac, prepared for us by the architect to whom Felipe intrusted
the decoration of Chantepleurs. I have been listening, in all the full
content of an assured and sanctioned love, to that divine music of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: To some place where they expected to get something. I bet!
For me it crawled towards Kurtz--exclusively; but when
the steam-pipes started leaking we crawled very slow.
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had
stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.
We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.
It was very quiet there. At night sometimes the roll
of drums behind the curtain of trees would run up the river
and remain sustained faintly, as if hovering in the air
high over our heads, till the first break of day.
Whether it meant war, peace, or prayer we could not tell.
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