| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With the courage of his father.
"And the boy grew up and prospered,
And Osseo, to delight him,
Made him little bows and arrows,
Opened the great cage of silver,
And let loose his aunts and uncles,
All those birds with glossy feathers,
For his little son to shoot at.
"Round and round they wheeled and darted,
Filled the Evening Star with music,
With their songs of joy and freedom
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: just think of India, with all its yogis and bazaars
and mahatmas and howdahs and rajahs and things!
He was a Brahmin, the Swami was. A Brahmin
and a Burman are the same thing, you know.
It's a caste, like belonging to one of our best
families.
The Swami explained about the marks of caste,
and so forth, to us.
And then one of the girls asked him if he was
tattooed!
The idea!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: manner as distinct species and genera of grasses differ from each other, a
greater number of individual plants of this species of grass, including its
modified descendants, would succeed in living on the same piece of ground.
And we well know that each species and each variety of grass is annually
sowing almost countless seeds; and thus, as it may be said, is striving its
utmost to increase its numbers. Consequently, I cannot doubt that in the
course of many thousands of generations, the most distinct varieties of any
one species of grass would always have the best chance of succeeding and of
increasing in numbers, and thus of supplanting the less distinct varieties;
and varieties, when rendered very distinct from each other, take the rank
of species.
On the Origin of Species |
