| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Here on the street as strangers do,
Children of chance we were, who passed
The door of heaven and never knew.
IMMORTAL
So soon my body will have gone
Beyond the sound and sight of men,
And tho' it wakes and suffers now,
Its sleep will be unbroken then;
But oh, my frail immortal soul
That will not sleep forevermore,
A leaf borne onward by the blast,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: into Asia, putting him in hopes that he might destroy the Persians,
and attain the height of greatness. And he wrote to his friends in
Asia, bidding them request to have Agesilaus appointed to command
them in the war against the barbarians; which they were persuaded to,
and sent ambassadors to Lacedaemon to entreat it. And this would
seem to be a second favor done Agesilaus by Lysander, not inferior to
his first in obtaining him the kingdom. But with ambitious natures,
otherwise not ill qualified for command, the feeling of jealousy of
those near them in reputation continually stands in the way of the
performance of noble actions; they make those their rivals in virtue,
whom they ought to use as their helpers to it. Agesilaus took
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: know!"
"Don't know I'm not stupid? No, how should they?"
"Yes, how should they?" said the Captain sympathetically. "But
isn't 'horrors' rather strong?"
"What you DO is rather strong!" the girl promptly returned.
"What I do?"
"Your extravagance, your selfishness, your immorality, your
crimes," she pursued, without heeding his expression.
"I SAY!"--her companion showed the queerest stare.
"I like them, as I tell you--I revel in them. But we needn't go
into that," she quietly went on; "for all I get out of it is the
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