| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'Didn't You ever see Sir Francis Drake again?'Dan asked.
'With one thing and another, and my being made a burgess of
Rye, I never clapped eyes on him for the next twenty years. Oh, I
had the news of his mighty doings the world over. They was the
very same bold, cunning shifts and passes he'd worked with
beforetimes off they Dutch sands, but, naturally, folk took more
note of them. When Queen Bess made him knight, he sent my
Aunt a dried orange stuffed with spiceries to smell to. She cried
outrageous on it. She blamed herself for her foretellings, having
set him on his won'erful road; but I reckon he'd ha' gone that way
all withstanding. Curious how close she foretelled it! The world
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: He will regret it when he's dead.
Poem: III - A PEAK IN DARIEN
Broad-gazing on untrodden lands,
See where adventurous Cortez stands;
While in the heavens above his head
The Eagle seeks its daily bread.
How aptly fact to fact replies:
Heroes and eagles, hills and skies.
Ye who contemn the fatted slave
Look on this emblem, and be brave.
Poem: IV
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: came to us both, and was expressed in a smile, to which I responded by
a slight pressure of the arm I held and drew toward my heart. It was
one of those nothings of which memory makes poems when we sit by the
fire and recall the hour when that nothing moved us, and the place
where it did so,--a mirage the effects of which have never been noted
down, though it appears on the objects that surround us in moments
when life sits lightly and our hearts are full. The loveliest scenery
is that we make ourselves. What man with any poesy in him does not
remember some mere mass of rock, which holds, it may be, a greater
place in his memory than the celebrated landscapes of other lands,
sought at great cost. Beside that rock, tumultuous thoughts! There a
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