| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: tremble. At each of these strokes of the sea the rolling and
pitching of the vessel ceased for a time, and her motion was
felt as if she had either broke adrift before the wind or were
in the act of sinking; but, when another sea came, she ranged
up against it with great force, and this became the regular
intimation of our being still riding at anchor.
About eleven o'clock, the writer with some difficulty got
out of bed, but, in attempting to dress, he was thrown twice
upon the floor at the opposite end of the cabin. In an
undressed state he made shift to get about half-way up the
companion-stairs, with an intention to observe the state of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: in our face. And we heard suddenly that
we were laughing, laughing aloud, laughing
as if there were no power left in us save laughter.
Then we took our glass box, and we
went on into the forest. We went on,
cutting through the branches, and it was
as if we were swimming through a sea of leaves,
with the bushes as waves rising and falling
and rising around us, and flinging their
green sprays high to the treetops.
The trees parted before us, calling us forward.
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: hoped that, from fear of your name, I should yield and keep
silence; for I do not think he presumed on his talents and
learning. Now, when he sees that I am very confident and speak
aloud, he repents too late of his rashness, and sees--if indeed
he does see it--that there is One in heaven who resists the
proud, and humbles the presumptuous.
Since then we were bringing about by this disputation nothing but
the greater confusion of the cause of Rome, Charles Miltitz for
the third time addressed the Fathers of the Order, assembled in
chapter, and sought their advice for the settlement of the case,
as being now in a most troubled and perilous state. Since, by the
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