| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Sound the flute!
Now it's mute!
Birds delight,
Day and night,
Nightingale,
In the dale,
Lark in sky, -
Merrily,
Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year.
Little boy,
Full of joy;
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: work at which he was engaged.
As I crept toward them cautiously that I might come as near as
possible before being discovered, I saw that finally the men
appeared to have reached some sort of a compromise, for with
Phaidor's assistance they both set about dragging the resisting
Dejah Thoris to the flier's deck.
Here they made her fast, and then both again descended to the ground
to complete the preparations for departure. Phaidor entered the
small cabin upon the vessel's deck.
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit
ourselves to an unknown fear.
PAROLLES.
Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our
latter times.
BERTRAM.
And so 'tis.
LAFEU.
To be relinquish'd of the artists,--
PAROLLES.
So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus.
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