| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: My Lord of Warwick, hear but one word:
Let me for this my lifetime reign as king.
YORK.
Confirm the crown to me, and to mine heirs,
And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou liv'st.
KING HENRY.
I am content; Richard Plantagenet,
Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.
CLIFFORD.
What wrong is this unto the prince your son!
WARWICK.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: let
Yama make thee an abiding-place.
14 Even as an arrow's feathers, they have set me on a fitting
day.
The fit word have I caught and held as 'twere a courser with
the rein.
HYMN XIX. Waters or Cows.
1. TURN, go not farther on your way: visit us, O ye Wealthy
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I have tried it on, dear Dairy, and it is very becoming. If they
insist on Switzerland I think I shall run away and be a trained
nurse. It is easy work, although sleeping on a cot is not always
comfortible. But at least a trained nurse leads her own Life and is
not bully-ed by her Familey. And more, she does good constantly.
I feel tonight that I should like to do good, and help the sick,
and perhaps go to the Front. I know a lot of college men in the
American Ambulence.
I shall never go on the stage, dear Dairy. I know now its
decietfullness and visisitudes. My heart has bled until it can
bleed no more, as a result of a theatricle Adonis. I am through
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