| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: through Wales, and up the Severn valley into Cheshire and
Lancashire, and the south-west of Scotland; and they are felt more
smartly there, I believe, because the rocks are harder there than
here, and more tossed about by earthquakes which happened ages and
ages ago, long before man lived on the earth. I will show you the
work of these earthquakes some day, in the tilting and twisting of
the layers of rock, and in the cracks (faults, as they are called)
which run through them in different directions. I showed you some
once, if you recollect, in the chalk cliff at Ramsgate--two set of
cracks, sloping opposite ways, which I told you were made by two
separate sets of earthquakes, long, long ago, perhaps while the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: sincere.
3. The sage has in the world an appearance of indecision, and keeps
his mind in a state of indifference to all. The people all keep their
eyes and ears directed to him, and he deals with them all as his
children.
50. 1. Men come forth and live; they enter (again) and die.
2. Of every ten three are ministers of life (to themselves); and three
are ministers of death.
3. There are also three in every ten whose aim is to live, but whose
movements tend to the land (or place) of death. And for what reason?
Because of their excessive endeavours to perpetuate life.
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