| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: therein shall they have fruits, and they shall have what they may call
for. 'Peace!'-a speech from the merciful Lord!
'Separate yourselves to-day, O ye sinners! Did I not covenant with
you, O children of Adam! that ye should not serve Satan? verily, he is
to you an open foe; but serve ye me, this is the right way. But he led
astray a numerous race of you; what! had ye then no sense? this is
hell, which ye were threatened; broil therein to-day, for that ye
misbelieved!'
On that day we will seal their mouths, and their hands shall speak
to us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned. And if
we please we could put out their eyes, and they would race along the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: motionless, leaning back in her chair with a kind of thoughtful
grace and with her eyes vaguely directed, as it seemed on me, to
one of the boxes on my side of the house and consequently over my
head and out of my sight. The only movement she made for some time
was to finger with an ungloved hand and as if with the habit of
fondness the row of pearls on her neck, which my glass showed me to
be large and splendid. Her diamonds and pearls, in her solitude,
mystified me, making me, as she had had no such brave jewels in the
days of the Hammond Synges, wonder what undreamt-of improvement had
taken place in her fortunes. The ghost of a question hovered there
a moment: could anything so prodigious have happened as that on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: That they were not even safe within a palisaded village
at night came as a distinct shock to them. That an enemy
could enter into the midst of their camp and kill their
sentry with bare hands seemed outside the bounds of reason,
and so the superstitious Manyuema commenced to attribute
their ill luck to supernatural causes; nor were the Arabs
able to offer any better explanation.
With at least fifty of their number flying through the black
jungle, and without the slightest knowledge of when their
uncanny foemen might resume the cold-blooded slaughter
they had commenced, it was a desperate band of cut-throats
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