| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk
together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places
will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the
South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain
of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: occupied by the brother and sister, on the second floor of a house
with three windows front and six storeys high in the rue Saint-Denis,
were furnished with the merest necessaries, yet no one in Paris had
finer furniture than they--in fancy. When Jerome walked the streets he
stopped short, struck with admiration at the handsome things in the
upholsterers' windows, and at the draperies he coveted for his house.
When he came home he would say to his sister: "I found in such a shop,
such and such a piece of furniture that will just do for the salon."
The next day he would buy another piece, and another, and so on. He
rejected, the following month, the articles of the months before. The
Budget itself, could not have paid for his architectural schemes. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: in which she was evidently ordering her thoughts, she began.
"I took the sleeping draught which you had so kindly given me,
but for a long time it did not act. I seemed to become more wakeful,
and myriads of horrible fancies began to crowd in upon my mind.
All of them connected with death, and vampires, with blood,
and pain, and trouble." Her husband involuntarily groaned
as she turned to him and said lovingly, "Do not fret, dear.
You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task.
If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful
thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
Well, I saw I must try to help the medicine to its work with my will,
Dracula |
