| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: OEDIPUS
What expiation means he? What's amiss?
CREON
Banishment, or the shedding blood for blood.
This stain of blood makes shipwreck of our state.
OEDIPUS
Whom can he mean, the miscreant thus denounced?
CREON
Before thou didst assume the helm of State,
The sovereign of this land was Laius.
OEDIPUS
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: of the house. On the way, he stumbled
over the rabbit burrow. If he
had had any idea who was inside it
he would have pulled them out
quickly.
His foot went through the tunnel
nearly upon the top of Peter Rabbit
and Benjamin; but, fortunately, he
thought that it was some more of
Tommy Brock's work.
He took up the coil of line from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: as the young man had never beheld. And he said unto him, `Son,
all these things give I unto thee, forasmuch as thou hast chosen
to become the husband to my daughter, and also thereby the heir
of all my substance.' So the young man acquired the inheritance,
and surpassed all the famous and wealthy men of the land."
XVII.
Said Ioasaph unto Barlaam, "This story also fitly setteth forth
mine own estate. Whence also me thinketh that thou hadst me in
mind when thou spakest it. But what is the proof whereby thou
seekest to know the steadfastness of my purpose?"
Said the elder, "I have already proved thee, and know how wise
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