| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Fitting tunes to everything,
Loving life for its own sake.
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Spring Torrents
Will it always be like this until I am dead,
Every spring must I bear it all again
With the first red haze of the budding maple boughs,
And the first sweet-smelling rain?
Oh I am like a rock in the rising river
Where the flooded water breaks with a low call --
Like a rock that knows the cry of the waters
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: does what is just and holy must be just and holy? Very true. And must he
not be courageous? for the duty of a temperate man is not to follow or to
avoid what he ought not, but what he ought, whether things or men or
pleasures or pains, and patiently to endure when he ought; and therefore,
Callicles, the temperate man, being, as we have described, also just and
courageous and holy, cannot be other than a perfectly good man, nor can the
good man do otherwise than well and perfectly whatever he does; and he who
does well must of necessity be happy and blessed, and the evil man who does
evil, miserable: now this latter is he whom you were applauding--the
intemperate who is the opposite of the temperate. Such is my position, and
these things I affirm to be true. And if they are true, then I further
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: All lesser thoughts were lost in the wish to see that carven face
which might set him on the track of the gods atop unknown Kadath.
At last, in the fearsome iciness of upper space, he came round
fully to the hidden side of Ngranek and saw in infinite gulfs
below him the lesser crags and sterile abysses of lava which marked
olden wrath of the Great Ones. There was unfolded, too, a vast
expanse of country to the south; but it was a desert land without
fair fields or cottage chimneys, and seemed to have no ending.
No trace of the sea was visible on this side, for Oriab is a great
island. Black caverns and odd crevices were still numerous on
the sheer vertical cliffs, but none of them was accessible to
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
