| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Rap! tap! tap! He knocked at the door, and the wise man who had
been his master opened to him. "What do you want?" said he.
"I want to take service with you again," said the travelling
servant.
"Very well," said the wise man; "come in and shut the door."
And for all I know the travelling servant is there to this day.
For he is not the only one in the world who has come in sight of
the fruit of happiness, and then jogged all the way back home
again to cook cabbage and onions and pot-herbs, and to make broth
for wiser men than himself to sup.
That is the end of this story.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: he began to laugh, and the ocean swallowed him. The girl was dragged
down into the depths by her lover. The Bishop and the older lady went
to the bottom, heavily laden with sins, it may be, but still more
heavily laden with incredulity and confidence in idols, weighted down
by devotion, into which alms-deeds and true religion entered but
little.
The faithful flock, who walked with a firm step high and dry above the
surge, heard all about them the dreadful whistling of the blast; great
billows broke across their path, but an irresistible force cleft a way
for them through the sea. These believing ones saw through the spray a
dim speck of light flickering in the window of a fisherman's hut on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where
they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a
separate creature. Some were white hogs, some were black; some were brown,
some were spotted; some were old, some young; some were long and lean,
some were monstrous. And each of them had an individuality of his own,
a will of his own, a hope and a heart's desire; each was full of self-
confidence, of self-importance, and a sense of dignity. And trusting and
strong in faith he had gone about his business, the while a black shadow
hung over him and a horrid Fate waited in his pathway. Now suddenly
it had swooped upon him, and had seized him by the leg. Relentless,
remorseless, it was; all his protests, his screams, were nothing to it--
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