| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: who stood in the same stable.
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I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I missed
it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with me
were good and I had a light airy stable and the best of food.
What more could I want? Why, liberty! For three years and a half of my life
I had had all the liberty I could wish for; but now, week after week,
month after month, and no doubt year after year, I must stand up in a stable
night and day except when I am wanted, and then I must be
just as steady and quiet as any old horse who has worked twenty years.
Straps here and straps there, a bit in my mouth, and blinkers over my eyes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: weaving do their fingers understand: thus do they make the hose of the
spirit!
Good clockworks are they: only be careful to wind them up properly! Then
do they indicate the hour without mistake, and make a modest noise thereby.
Like millstones do they work, and like pestles: throw only seed-corn unto
them!--they know well how to grind corn small, and make white dust out of
it.
They keep a sharp eye on one another, and do not trust each other the best.
Ingenious in little artifices, they wait for those whose knowledge walketh
on lame feet,--like spiders do they wait.
I saw them always prepare their poison with precaution; and always did they
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: land and sea. And now, if he must give up the search, he seemed
to have no more business in the world.
But again the sighing gust of air grew into something like a
hoarse voice.
"Follow the cow!" it said. "Follow the cow! Follow the cow!"
And when these words had been repeated until Cadmus was tired
of hearing them (especially as he could not imagine what cow it
was, or why he was to follow her), the gusty hole gave vent to
another sentence.
"Where the stray cow lies down, there is your home."
These words were pronounced but a single time, and died away
Tanglewood Tales |
