| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: then each one seized as many toys as he could carry and they all flew
to Claus and laid the treasure before him.
The good man was rejoiced to receive, just in the nick of time, such a
store of playthings with which to load his sledge, and he sent word to
Glossie and Flossie to be ready for the journey at nightfall.
With all his other labors he had managed to find time, since the last
trip, to repair the harness and to strengthen his sledge, so that when
the deer came to him at twilight he had no difficulty in harnessing them.
"We must go in another direction to-night," he told them, "where we
shall find children I have never yet visited. And we must travel fast
and work quickly, for my sack is full of toys and running over the brim!"
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: Without friendship,[25] as we full well know, there is no society of
any worth. And this friendship, what is it? On the part of those whose
admiration[26] is bestowed upon the inner disposition, it is well
named a sweet and voluntary compulsion. But among those whose
desire[26] is for the body, there are not a few who blame, nay hate,
the ways of their beloved ones. And even where attachment[26] clings
to both,[27] even so the bloom of beauty after all does quickly reach
its prime; the flower withers, and when that fails, the affection
which was based upon it must also wither up and perish. But the soul,
with every step she makes in her onward course towards deeper wisdom,
grows ever worthier of love.
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: were thousands of black demons in that black hole. At the first
rushing impact I shouted to Harry: "Keep your back to the wall,"
and for response I got a high, ringing laugh that breathed the joy
of battle.
The thing was sickening. Harry is a natural fighting man; I
am not. Without the wall at our backs we would have been
overpowered in thirty seconds; as it was, we were forced to handle
half a dozen of them at once, while the others surged in from
behind. They had no weapons, but they had the advantage of being
able to see us.
They clutched my throat, my arms, my legs, my body; there was
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