| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: his cup of joy be dashed from him. "I'm not dreaming, am I? I'll
not wake the way I often do and find that it is all a dream, will
I?" He caught at the lapel of O'Connor's coat and searched his
face.
"No, your dreams are true at last, Dave Henderson. Come, old
friend, take a drink of this to steady you. It's all coming out
right now."
Tears streamed down the face of the man rescued from a living
grave. He dashed them away impatiently with a shaking hand. "I
used to be as game as other men, young man, and now you see what
a weakling I am. Don't judge me too hard. Happiness is a harder
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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: pigs, called Cross-patch, Suck-suck,
Yock-yock and Spot; and four little
boy pigs, called Alexander, Pigling
Bland, Chin-Chin and Stumpy.
Stumpy had had an accident to his
tail.
The eight little pigs had very fine
appetites--"Yus, yus, yus! they eat
and indeed they DO eat!" said Aunt
Pettitoes, looking at her family
with pride. Suddenly there were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: And at this the appearance gobbled like a turkey.
He never knew how he did that; but he swung the sword on the one
side, and clove the appearance through the midst; and it cried out
aloud with the voice of his mother; and fell to the ground; and
with the fall of it, the house was gone from over Jack's head, and
he stood alone in the woods, and the gyve was loosened from his
leg.
"Well," said he, "the enchanter is now dead, and the fetter gone."
But the cries rang in his soul, and the day was like night to him.
"This has been a sore business," said he. "Let me get forth out of
the wood, and see the good that I have done to others."
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