| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: particular, so many diverse objects presented themselves to me, that I
believed it to be impossible for the human mind to distinguish the forms
or species of bodies that are upon the earth, from an infinity of others
which might have been, if it had pleased God to place them there, or
consequently to apply them to our use, unless we rise to causes through
their effects, and avail ourselves of many particular experiments.
Thereupon, turning over in my mind I the objects that had ever been
presented to my senses I freely venture to state that I have never
observed any which I could not satisfactorily explain by the principles
had discovered. But it is necessary also to confess that the power of
nature is so ample and vast, and these principles so simple and general,
Reason Discourse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: defensive machinery of forgetfulness, not against the trivial but
against the unbearable.
For the last day or two he had faced the fact that, not only must
he use every endeavor to revive his past, but that such revival
threatened with cruelty and finality to separate him from the
present.
With an open and unread letter in his hand he stared about the
office. This place was his; he had fought for it, worked for it.
He had an almost physical sense of unseen hands reaching out to
drag him away from it; from David and Lucy, and from Elizabeth.
And of himself holding desperately to them all, and to the
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Which, working into eyes, engender pain.
Again, whatever jaundiced people view
Becomes wan-yellow, since from out their bodies
Flow many seeds wan-yellow forth to meet
The films of things, and many too are mixed
Within their eye, which by contagion paint
All things with sallowness. Again, we view
From dark recesses things that stand in light,
Because, when first has entered and possessed
The open eyes this nearer darkling air,
Swiftly the shining air and luminous
Of The Nature of Things |
