| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: And yet has nothing, Ignorance the real
One Fraticide since Cain, Envy the asp
That stings itself to anguish, Avarice whose palsied grasp
Is in its extent stiffened, moneyed Greed
For whose dull appetite men waste away
Amid the whirr of wheels and are the seed
Of things which slay their sower, these each day
Sees rife in England, and the gentle feet
Of Beauty tread no more the stones of each unlovely street.
What even Cromwell spared is desecrated
By weed and worm, left to the stormy play
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: his guardian with his defalcation and to lament the burthen of
Miss Hazeltine; and Joseph, though he was a mild enough soul,
regarded his nephew with something very near akin to hatred. But
the way there was nothing to the journey back; for the mere sight
of the place of business, as well as every detail of its
transactions, was enough to poison life for any Finsbury.
Joseph's name was still over the door; it was he who still signed
the cheques; but this was only policy on the part of Morris, and
designed to discourage other members of the tontine. In reality
the business was entirely his; and he found it an inheritance of
sorrows. He tried to sell it, and the offers he received were
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: stranger with the light about his head spoke to this little world of
drowning creatures:
"Those who have faith shall be saved; let them follow me!"
He stood upright, and walked with a firm step upon the waves. The
young mother at once took her child in her arms, and followed at his
side across the sea. The soldier too sprang up, saying in his homely
fashion, "Ah! /nom d'un pipe/! I would follow /you/ to the devil;" and
without seeming astonished by it, he walked on the water. The worn-out
sinner, believing in the omnipotence of God, also followed the
stranger.
The two peasants said to each other, "If they are walking on the sea,
|
