| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Athena strode across the stretch of sick and shivering sea!
To the dull sailors' sight her loosened looks
Seemed like the jagged storm-rack, and her feet
Only the spume that floats on hidden rocks,
And, marking how the rising waters beat
Against the rolling ship, the pilot cried
To the young helmsman at the stern to luff to windward side
But he, the overbold adulterer,
A dear profaner of great mysteries,
An ardent amorous idolater,
When he beheld those grand relentless eyes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: natural and moral life. This firstly. Secondly, these people were
subjected to all sorts of unnecessary indignity in these
different Places--chains, shaved heads, shameful clothing--that
is, they were deprived of the chief motives that induce the weak
to live good lives, the regard for public opinion, the sense of
shame and the consciousness of human dignity. Thirdly, they were
continually exposed to dangers, such as the epidemics so frequent
in places of confinement, exhaustion, flogging, not to mention
accidents, such as sunstrokes, drowning or conflagrations, when
the instinct of self-preservation makes even the kindest, most
moral men commit cruel actions, and excuse such actions when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: "Oh, Kezia! Why are you such a messy child!" cried Beryl despairingly.
"Me, Aunt Beryl?" Kezia stared at her. What had she done now? She had
only dug a river down the middle of her porridge, filled it, and was eating
the banks away. But she did that every single morning, and no one had said
a word up till now.
"Why can't you eat your food properly like Isabel and Lottie?" How unfair
grown-ups are!
"But Lottie always makes a floating island, don't you, Lottie?"
"I don't," said Isabel smartly. "I just sprinkle mine with sugar and put
on the milk and finish it. Only babies play with their food."
Stanley pushed back his chair and got up.
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