| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: more full of human beings whose growth has not
been dwarfed and stunted by oppression.
A life lived in this spirit--the spirit that aims at
creating rather than possessing--has a certain
fundamental happiness, of which it cannot be wholly
robbed by adverse circumstances. This is the way
of life recommended in the Gospels, and by all the
great teachers of the world. Those who have found
it are freed from the tyranny of fear, since what they
value most in their lives is not at the mercy of outside
power. If all men could summon up the courage
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: 'I can say but one thing,' said Mrs. Desborough: 'I love my
husband.'
'It is a good answer,' returned the Prince; 'and you name a
good influence, but one that need not be conterminous with
life.'
'I will not play at pride with such a man as you,' she
answered. 'What do you ask of me? not protestations, I am
sure. What shall I say? I have done much that I cannot
defend and that I would not do again. Can I say more? Yes:
I can say this: I never abused myself with the muddle-headed
fairy tales of politics. I was at least prepared to meet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: troubled Jurgis was the impossibility of carrying off but a small
part of the treasures they offered him.
There was a man who was known in the party as the "Little Giant."
The Lord had used up so much material in the making of his head
that there had not been enough to complete his legs; but he got
about on the platform, and when he shook his raven whiskers the
pillars of capitalism rocked. He had written a veritable
encyclopedia upon the subject, a book that was nearly as big as
himself--And then there was a young author, who came from
California, and had been a salmon fisher, an oyster-pirate, a
longshoreman, a sailor; who had tramped the country and been sent
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