| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: There is no impression of sense which does not simultaneously recall
differences of form, number, colour, and the like. Neither is such a
distinction applicable at all to our internal bodily sensations, which give
no sign of themselves when unaccompanied with pain, and even when we are
most conscious of them, have often no assignable place in the human frame.
Who can divide the nerves or great nervous centres from the mind which uses
them? Who can separate the pains and pleasures of the mind from the pains
and pleasures of the body? The words 'inward and outward,' 'active and
passive,' 'mind and body,' are best conceived by us as differences of
degree passing into differences of kind, and at one time and under one
aspect acting in harmony and then again opposed. They introduce a system
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: began to ask questions of Rhoda Gray, Gypsy Nan had apparently
recovered her grip upon herself.
"Ah, let her alone!" she broke in. "She doesn't know me any more
than you do. She found me on the street. But she was good to me,
God bless her!"
"Your name's Charlotte Green? Yes?" The man nodded. "Where do
you live?"
"Wherever I like!" Gypsy Nan was snarling truculently now. "What's
it matter where I live? Don't you ever have any one come here
without a letter from the pastor of her church!" She pulled out the
package of banknotes. "You aren't going to get stuck. This'll see
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the
way we find them, and the way we lose them. A grave subject, you
will say; and a wide one! Yes; so wide that I shall make no effort
to touch the compass of it. I will try only to bring before you a
few simple thoughts about reading, which press themselves upon me
every day more deeply, as I watch the course of the public mind with
respect to our daily enlarging means of education; and the
answeringly wider spreading on the levels, of the irrigation of
literature.
It happens that I have practically some connexion with schools for
different classes of youth; and I receive many letters from parents
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