| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: that to kill this savage princess with one blow he must poniard her in
the throat.
He raised the blade, when the panther, satisfied no doubt, laid
herself gracefully at his feet, and cast up at him glances in which,
in spite of their natural fierceness, was mingled confusedly a kind of
good will. The poor Provencal ate his dates, leaning against one of
the palm trees, and casting his eyes alternately on the desert in
quest of some liberator and on his terrible companion to watch her
uncertain clemency.
The panther looked at the place where the date stones fell, and every
time that he threw one down her eyes expressed an incredible mistrust.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: hand to keep them consistent--a hand that pulled the wire with a
skill at which the elder man more and more marvelled. The elder
man felt responsible, but he also felt successful, since what had
taken place was simply the issue of his own contention, six weeks
before, that they properly should wait to see what their friends
would have really to say. He had determined Chad to wait, he had
determined him to see; he was therefore not to quarrel with the
time given up to the business. As much as ever, accordingly, now
that a fortnight had elapsed, the situation created for Sarah, and
against which she had raised no protest, was that of her having
accommodated herself to her adventure as to a pleasure-party
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: life!"
"Do be calm," Chris said soothingly. "Listen to me. It is all a lark. We are
playing with the subjective forces of our own being, with phenomena which
science has not yet explained, that is all. Psychology is so young a science.
The subconscious mind has just been discovered, one might say. It is all
mystery as yet; the laws of it are yet to he formulated. This is simply
unexplained phenomena. But that is no reason that we should immediately
account for it by labelling it spiritism. As yet we do not know, that is all.
As for Planchette--"
He abruptly ceased, for at that moment, to enforce his remark, he had placed
his hand on Planchette, and at that moment his hand had been seized, as by a
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