| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: TRANIO.
Mistress, we have.
LUCENTIO.
Then we are rid of Licio.
TRANIO.
I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,
That shall be woo'd and wedded in a day.
BIANCA.
God give him joy!
TRANIO.
Ay, and he'll tame her.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: away. So I tried to tell them, as best as I could, hoping
that other men, being also seekers, might find some meaning in
them.
There are only little, broken chapters from the long story
of life. None of them is taken from other books. Only one of
them--the story of Winifried and the Thunder-Oak--has the
slightest wisp of a foundation in fact or legend. Yet I think
they are all true.
But how to find a name for such a book,--a name that will tell
enough to show the thought and yet not too much to leave it free?
I have borrowed a symbol from the old
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