| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: understand it, to understand the whole of the Master's will is
not in my power. But to do His will, that is written down in my
conscience, is in my power; that I know for certain. And when I
am fulfilling it I have sureness and peace."
The rain came down in torrents and rushed from the roof into a
tub beneath; the lightning lit up the house and yard less
frequently. Nekhludoff went into his room, undressed, and lay
down, not without fear of the bugs, whose presence the dirty,
torn wall-papers made him suspect.
"Yes, to feel one's self not the master but a servant," he
thought, and rejoiced at the thought. His fears were not vain.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: "Oh, sister, how could you?" Ann Eliza wailed. She knew
little of the Catholic religion except that "Papists" believed in
it--in itself a sufficient indictment. Her spiritual rebellion had
not freed her from the formal part of her religious belief, and
apostasy had always seemed to her one of the sins from which the
pure in mind avert their thoughts.
"And then when the baby was born," Evelina continued, "he
christened it right away, so it could go to heaven; and after that,
you see, I had to be a Catholic."
"I don't see--"
"Don't I have to be where the baby is? I couldn't ever ha'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: When the Lygonani had gone, one of us thought of opening the
basket he had brought as a proof that Flossie was really their
prisoner. On lifting the lid it was found to contain a most
lovely specimen of both bulb and flower of the Goya lily, which
I have already described, in full bloom and quite uninjured,
and what was more a note in Flossie's childish hand written in
pencil upon a greasy piece of paper that had been used to wrap
up some food in: --
'Dearest Father and Mother,' ran the note, 'The Masai caught
us when we were coming home with the lily. I tried to escape
but could not. They killed Tom: the other man ran away. They
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