| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your
neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are
cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with
petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at
once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated
again. Action from principle -- the perception and the performance
of right -- changes things and relations; it is essentially
revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was.
It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; ay, it
divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the
divine.
Walden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: common soldier for a hundred pesos. For these men never doubted
but that the women and the gold would be handed over to them.
Thus things went for several days, during which I sat and slept in
my prison untroubled by any, except the native woman who waited on
me and brought me food in plenty. During those days I ate as I
have never eaten before or since, and I slept much, for my sorrows
could not rid my body of its appetites and commanding need for food
and rest. Indeed I verily believe that at the end of a week, I had
increased in weight by a full half; also my weariness was conquered
at length, and I was strong again.
But when I was neither sleeping nor eating I watched at my window,
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: secretary. But he says I am not serious enough.
LADY HUNSTANTON. My dear, you really mustn't talk like that in
this house. Mrs. Arbuthnot doesn't know anything about the wicked
society in which we all live. She won't go into it. She is far
too good. I consider it was a great honour her coming to me last
night. It gave quite an atmosphere of respectability to the party.
MRS. ALLONBY. Ah, that must have been what you thought was thunder
in the air.
LADY HUNSTANTON. My dear, how can you say that? There is no
resemblance between the two things at all. But really, Gerald,
what do you mean by not being suitable?
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