| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: unto Thee, and, verily, I am of those resigned.'
There are those from whom we accept the best of what they have done,
and we pass over their offences-amongst the fellows of Paradise; the
promise of truth which they have been promised.
But he who says to his parents, 'Fie upon you! Do ye promise me that
I shall be brought forth when generations have passed away before
me?'-then shall they both cry to God for help. Woe to thee! Believe!
Verily, the promise of God is true. Then says he, 'This is but old
folks tales.'
There are those against whom the sentence was due amongst the
nations who have passed away before them of ginns and men; verily,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: see if there was anything left in or near the vehicle that was worth
saving. By the light of the flames he saw gold and diamonds and plate
scattered everywhere, no one having thought it worth his while to take
any.
Each of the individuals collected by chance around this fire
maintained a silence that was almost horrible, and did nothing but
what he judged necessary for his own welfare. Their misery was even
grotesque. Faces, discolored by cold, were covered with a layer of
mud, on which tears had made a furrow from the eyes to the beard,
showing the thickness of that miry mask. The filth of their long
beards made these men still more repulsive. Some were wrapped in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: to be ministers of religion openly declaring that when they pass
through the streets they have to keep out in the wheeled traffic to
avoid the temptations of the pavement. You have them organizing hunts
of the women who tempt them--poor creatures whom no artist would touch
without a shudder--and wildly clamoring for more clothes to disguise
and conceal the body, and for the abolition of pictures, statues,
theatres, and pretty colors. And incredible as it seems, these
unhappy lunatics are left at large, unrebuked, even admired and
revered, whilst artists have to struggle for toleration. To them an
undraped human body is the most monstrous, the most blighting, the
most obscene, the most unbearable spectacle in the universe. To an
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