| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: idea of that at present. They simply saw a proud and happy
mother, and Henriette played with the baby, giving vent to
childish delight. Then suddenly she looked up and saw that
George was watching her, and as she read his thoughts a beautiful
blush suffused her cheeks.
As for George, he turned away and went out under the blue sky in
a kind of ecstasy. Life seemed very wonderful to him just then;
he had found its supreme happiness, which was love. He was
really getting quite mad about Henriette, he told himself. He
could hardly believe that the day was coming when he would be
able to clasp her in his arms.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: [Sound Trumpets. Enter Audley.]
But say, what grim discouragement comes here!
Alas, what thousand armed men of France
Have writ that note of death in Audley's face?
Speak, thou that wooest death with thy careless smile,
And lookst so merrily upon thy grave,
As if thou were enamored on thine end:
What hungry sword hath so bereaved thy face,
And lopped a true friend from my loving soul?
AUDLEY.
O Prince, thy sweet bemoaning speech to me
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: the shoes gave out, let them wear their hoofs down to the bleeding
stumps. He spent his last dollar for horseshoe nails. I know
this because we slept in the one bed and ate from the one pot, and
became blood brothers where men lost their grip of things and died
blaspheming God. He was never too tired to ease a strap or
tighten a cinch, and often there were tears in his eyes when he
looked on all that waste of misery. At a passage in the rocks,
where the brutes upreared hindlegged and stretched their forelegs
upward like cats to clear the wall, the way was piled with
carcasses where they had toppled back. And here he stood, in the
stench of hell, with a cheery word and a hand on the rump at the
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