| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: "What are you talking about?" asked the young woman.
"It is written in the Book of Worn Out Sayings that 'in the rose
garden of life he who plucks thorns for his partner's bed is a fool.'"
"I don't understand," said the young man.
"Those who sell flowers put them in a pan of colored water and the
flowers take on the color of the water," concluded The Wise One. The
couple left confused and without resolving their dispute, but they
did seem to agree that their trip to The Wise One was worthless.
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On one occasion two men came to The Wise One on the same day. The
first was a young man unsure about which road to take as he stepped
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: silenced by generous admiration, such as I partly envy for myself -
such as you, if your soul were enlightened, would envy on your
bended knees. It is the least defect of such a method of
portraiture that it makes the path easy for the devil's advocate,
and leaves the misuse of the slanderer a considerable field of
truth. For the truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest
weapon of the enemy. The world, in your despite, may perhaps owe
you something, if your letter be the means of substituting once for
all a credible likeness for a wax abstraction. For, if that world
at all remember you, on the day when Damien of Molokai shall be
named a Saint, it will be in virtue of one work: your letter to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: city. And he went in in my sight.
EZE 10:3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when
the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
EZE 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood
over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the
cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.
EZE 10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the
outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
EZE 10:6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man
clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from
between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
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