| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: the thought. The truth is, the Japanese conception of events is
only very vaguely subjective. An action is looked upon more as
happening than as being performed, as impersonally rather than
personally produced. The idea is due, however, to anything but
philosophic profundity. It springs from the most superficial of
childish conceptions. For the Japanese mind is quite the reverse of
abstract. Its consideration of things is concrete to a primitive
degree. The language reflects the fact. The few abstract ideas
these people now possess are not represented, for the most part, by
pure Japanese, but by imported Chinese expressions. The islanders
got such general notions from their foreign education, and they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: - It would amuse you to see how cool (in head) and jolly everybody
is. A testy word now and then shows the wires are strained a
little, but everyone laughs and makes his little jokes as if it
were all in fun: yet we are all as much in earnest as the most
earnest of the earnest bastard German school or demonstrative of
Frenchmen. I enjoy it very much.
'June 12.
'5.30 A.M. - Out of sight of land: about thirty nautical miles in
the hold; the wind rising a little; experiments being made for a
fault, while the engine slowly revolves to keep us hanging at the
same spot: depth supposed about a mile. The machinery has behaved
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: PSA 107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
PSA 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed
from the hand of the enemy;
PSA 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from
the west, from the north, and from the south.
PSA 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found
no city to dwell in.
PSA 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
PSA 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he
delivered them out of their distresses.
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