| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: 44. 1. Or fame or life,
Which do you hold more dear?
Or life or wealth,
To which would you adhere?
Keep life and lose those other things;
Keep them and lose your life:--which brings
Sorrow and pain more near?
2. Thus we may see,
Who cleaves to fame
Rejects what is more great;
Who loves large stores
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: our very voices, compared to which Puck's girdle is anything but
talismanic, with the other we are stretching out to grasp the action
of mind on mind, pushing our way into the very realm of mind itself.
History tells the same story in detail; for the history of mankind,
imperfectly as we know it, discloses the fact that imagination,
and not the power of observation nor the kindred capability of
perception, has been the cause of soul-evolution.
The savage is but little of an imaginative being. We are tempted,
at times, to imagine him more so than he is, for his fanciful
folk-lore. The proof of which overestimation is that we find no
difficulty in imagining what he does, and even of imagining what he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: unsupported by foot-soldiers interspersed among the horses.[14]
Epaminondas again differed in strengthening the attacking point of his
cavalry, besides which he interspersed footmen between their lines in
the belief that, when he had once cut through the cavalry, he would
have wrested victory from the antagonist along his whole line; so hard
is it to find troops who will care to keep their own ground when once
they see any of their own side flying. Lastly, to prevent any attempt
on the part of the Athenians, who were on the enemy's left wing, to
bring up their reliefs in support of the portion next them, he posted
bodies of cavalry and heavy infantry on certain hillocks in front of
them, intending to create in their minds an apprehension that, in case
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