| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: the white Pyrenees; and from the purple glens and yellow downs of
the Cevennes on the north-west, the Herault slopes gently down
towards the "Etangs," or great salt-water lagoons, and the vast
alluvial flats of the Camargue, the field of Caius Marius, where
still run herds of half-wild horses, descended from some ancient
Roman stock; while beyond all glitters the blue Mediterranean. The
great almond orchards, each one sheet of rose-colour in spring; the
mulberry orchards, the oliveyards, the vineyards, cover every foot
of available upland soil: save where the rugged and arid downs are
sweet with a thousand odoriferous plants, from which the bees
extract the famous white honey of Narbonne. The native flowers and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: only occurred to him when he noticed what a pacific attitude his
companion remained in. "Come, ma petite blonde, I'll let you go to bed
first," he said to her, counting on the activity of his own legs to
run away as quickly as possible, directly she was asleep, and seek
another shelter for the night.
The soldier waited with impatience the hour of his flight, and when it
had arrived he walked vigorously in the direction of the Nile; but
hardly had he made a quarter of a league in the sand when he heard the
panther bounding after him, crying with that saw-like cry more
dreadful even than the sound of her leaping.
"Ah!" he said, "then she's taken a fancy to me, she has never met
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: of the endocrine glands, the layman is referred to a recently
published book by Dr. Louis Berman.[2] This authority reveals anew how
body and soul are bound up together in a complex unity. Our spiritual
and psychic difficulties cannot be solved until we have mastered the
knowledge of the wellsprings of our being. ``The chemistry of the
soul! Magnificent phrase!'' exclaims Dr. Berman. ``It's a long, long
way to that goal. The exact formula is as yet far beyond our reach.
But we have started upon the long journey, and we shall get there.
``The internal secretions constitute and determine much of the
inherited powers of the individual and their development. They
control physical and mental growth, and all the metabolic processes of
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