| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: the highest and best, and the hearth of noble Odysseus
whereunto I am come, that all these things shall surely be
accomplished even as I tell thee. In this same year
Odysseus shall come hither, as the old moon wanes and the
new is born.'
Then wise Penelope answered him: 'Ah! stranger, would that
this word may be accomplished. Soon shouldst thou be aware
of kindness and many a gift at my hands, so that whoso met
with thee would call thee blessed. But on this wise my
heart has a boding, and so it shall be. Neither shall
Odysseus come home any more, nor shalt thou gain an escort
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: his impressions to Brandeis. Brandeis replied in an epigram:
"Where there has been anarchy in a country, there must be
oppression for a time." But unfortunately the terms of the epigram
may be reversed; and personal supervision would have been more in
season than wit. The same observer who conveyed to him this
warning thinks that, if Brandeis had himself visited the districts
and inquired into complaints, the blow might yet have been averted
and the government saved. At last, upon a certain unconstitutional
act of Tamasese, the discontent took life and fire. The act was of
his own conception; the dull dog was ambitious. Brandeis declares
he would not be dissuaded; perhaps his adviser did not seriously
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: like a hot knife through butter, and have been totally
submerged with scarce a jar--I have done it a thousand
times--but I did not dare submerge the Coldwater for fear
that it would remain submerged to the end of time--a
condition far from conducive to the longevity of commander
or crew.
Most of my officers were older men than I. John Alvarez, my
first officer, is twenty years my senior. He stood at my
side on the bridge as the ship glided closer and closer to
those stupendous waves. He watched my every move, but he
was by far too fine an officer and gentleman to embarrass me
Lost Continent |
