| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: As for the passions, and studies of the mind; avoid
envy, anxious fears; anger fretting inwards;
subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilara-
tions in excess; sadness not communicated. Enter-
tain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of
delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and
admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that
fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects,
as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.
If you fly physic in health altogether, it will be too
strange for your body, when you shall need it. If
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I know, Trot, and that's what sticks me. We're livin' in a magic country,
but neither of us knows any magic an' so we can't help ourselves."
"Couldn't the Wizard of Oz help us--or Glinda the Good?" asked the
little girl.
"Ah, now we're beginnin' to reason," he answered. "I'd probably
thought o' that, myself, in a minute more. By good luck the Glass Cat
is free, an' so it can run back to the Emerald City an' tell the
Wizard about our fix, an' ask him to come an' help us get loose."
"Will you go?" Trot asked the cat, speaking very earnestly.
"I'm no messenger, to be sent here and there," asserted the curious
animal in a sulky tone of voice.
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: might call unconscious self-confidence - a most pleasant and, as it
were, whimsical determination. I will not compare her eyes to
violets, because the real shade of their colour was peculiar, not
so dark and more lustrous. They were of the wide-open kind, and
looked at one frankly in every mood. I never did see the long,
dark eyelashes lowered - I dare say Jasper Allen did, being a
privileged person - but I have no doubt that the expression must
have been charming in a complex way. She could - Jasper told me
once with a touchingly imbecile exultation - sit on her hair. I
dare say, I dare say. It was not for me to behold these wonders; I
was content to admire the neat and becoming way she used to do it
'Twixt Land & Sea |
