| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Leaps out of the night,
The snake of lightning
Is twisting and white,
The lion of thunder
Roars -- and we
Sit still and content
Under a tree --
We have met fate together
And love and pain,
Why should we fear
The wrath of the rain!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: other four.
These possible lines of foot-square impressions
appeared to lead in two directions, as if something had gone somewhere
and returned. They were, of course, very faint, and may have been
illusions or accidents; but there was an element of dim, fumbling
terror about the way I thought they ran. For at one end of them
was the heap of cases which must have clattered down not long
before, while at the other end was the ominous trap-door with
the cool, damp wind, yawning unguarded down to abysses past imagination.
VIII
That my strange sense of compulsion was deep and overwhelming
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: fearless and senseless. Do you imagine that I should call little children
courageous, which fear no dangers because they know none? There is a
difference, to my way of thinking, between fearlessness and courage. I am
of opinion that thoughtful courage is a quality possessed by very few, but
that rashness and boldness, and fearlessness, which has no forethought, are
very common qualities possessed by many men, many women, many children,
many animals. And you, and men in general, call by the term 'courageous'
actions which I call rash;--my courageous actions are wise actions.
LACHES: Behold, Socrates, how admirably, as he thinks, he dresses himself
out in words, while seeking to deprive of the honour of courage those whom
all the world acknowledges to be courageous.
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