| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: is more happy than another, and wisdom surely directs us to take
the least evil in the CHOICE OF LIFE."
"The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, "are so various and
uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by
various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be
foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable
reasons of preference must live and die inquiring and
deliberating."
"But, surely," said Rasselas, "the wise men, to whom we listen with
reverence and wonder, chose that mode of life for themselves which
they thought most likely to make them happy."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: All these researches, which are here summed up in a few lines,
demanded long years for their accomplishment. Despairing of
completing them, I abandoned them more than once to return to
those labours of the laboratory in which one is always sure of
skirting the truth and of acquiring fragments at least of
certitude.
But while it is very interesting to explore the world of material
phenomena, it is still more so to decipher men, for which reason
I have always been led back to psychology.
Certain principles deduced from my researches appearing likely to
prove fruitful, I resolved to apply them to the study of concrete
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: to a cliff which overhangs a shoreless cove of deep dark sea, and
on the other to an abyss even more hideous, where the solid rock
has sunk away, and opened inland in the hillside a smooth-walled
pit, some sixty feet square and some hundred and fifty in depth,
aptly known then as now, as the Devil's-limekiln; the mouth of
which, as old wives say, was once closed by the Shutter-rock
itself, till the fiend in malice hurled it into the sea, to be a
pest to mariners. A narrow and untrodden cavern at the bottom
connects it with the outer sea; they could even then hear the
mysterious thunder and gurgle of the surge in the subterranean
adit, as it rolled huge boulders to and fro in darkness, and forced
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