| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: to other topics, and coming out on the veranda, he handed the
cigars to Flamel, saying, cheerfully--and yet he could have sworn
they were the last words he meant to utter!--"Look here, old man,
before you go down to Newport you must come out and spend a few
days with us--mustn't he, Alexa?"
VIII
Glennard had, perhaps unconsciously, counted on the continuance of
this easier mood. He had always taken pride in a certain
robustness of fibre that enabled him to harden himself against the
inevitable, to convert his failures into the building materials of
success. Though it did not even now occur to him that what he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the
covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
CH2 34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the
countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that
were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And
all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their
fathers.
CH2 35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem:
and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
CH2 35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them
to the service of the house of the LORD,
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: good temper of expression which commonly marks the Colonial European who
grows up beyond the range of the cities. The third was smaller and more
wiry and of an unusually nervous type, with aquiline nose, and sallow
hatchet face, with a somewhat discontented expression. He was holding
forth, while his companions smoked and listened.
"Now what I say is this," he brought his hand down on the red sand; "here
we are with about one half teaspoon of Dop given us at night, while he has
ten empty champagne bottles lying behind his tent. And we have to live on
the mealies we're convoying for the horses, while he has pati and beef, and
lives like a lord! It's all very well for the regulars; they know what
they're in for, and they've got gentlemen over them anyhow, and one can
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