| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: same time Christ's voice told her that, unable longer to contain
the flames of his love for mankind, he had chosen her by a
miracle to spread the knowledge of them. He thereupon took out
her mortal heart, placed it inside of his own and inflamed it,
and then replaced it in her breast, adding: "Hitherto thou hast
taken the name of my slave, hereafter thou shalt be called the
well-beloved disciple of my Sacred Heart."
In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the
"great design" which he wished to establish through her
instrumentality. "I ask of thee to bring it about that every
first Friday after the week of holy Sacrament shall be made into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: you have nobody alive whose body cannot live the wholesome
everyday life, whose spirit cannot come up into these high places
as it wills.'
'We shall manage that soon,' said Fowler.
'For endless generations man has struggled upward against the
indignities of his body--and the indignities of his soul. Pains,
incapacities, vile fears, black moods, despairs. How well I've
known them. They've taken more time than all your holidays. It
is true, is it not, that every man is something of a cripple and
something of a beast? I've dipped a little deeper than most;
that's all. It's only now when he has fully learnt the truth of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: a damp sleep. It was probably midnight when I roused again. I had
been dreaming of the wreck, and it was inexpressibly comforting to
feel the stability of my bed, and to realize the equal stability of
Mrs. Klopton, who sat, fully attired, by the night light, reading
Science and Health.
"Does that book say anything about opening the windows on a hot
night?" I suggested, when I had got my bearings.
She put it down immediately and came over to me. If there is one
time when Mrs. Klopton is chastened - and it is the only time - it
is when she reads Science and Health. "I don't like to open the
shutters, Mr. Lawrence," she explained. "Not since the night you
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