| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: buds are blowing;
To the koil-haunted river-isles where lotus lilies
glisten,
The voices of the fairy folk are calling me:
O listen!
Honey, child, honey, child, the world is full of
pleasure,
Of bridal-songs and cradle-songs and sandal-
scented leisure.
Your bridal robes are in the loom, silver and
saffron glowing,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: agility and quickness, is noblest and best?
Yes, certainly.
And is temperance a good?
Yes.
Then, in reference to the body, not quietness, but quickness will be the
higher degree of temperance, if temperance is a good?
True, he said.
And which, I said, is better--facility in learning, or difficulty in
learning?
Facility.
Yes, I said; and facility in learning is learning quickly, and difficulty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: braying so that the leaves of the trees trembled and shook. For
no sooner had he lifted the lid than out leaped a great hideous
Genie, as black as a coal, with one fiery-red eye in the middle
of his forehead that glared and rolled most horribly, and with
his hands and feet set with claws, sharp and hooked like the
talons of a hawk. Poor Abdallah the fagot-maker lay upon his back
staring at the monster with a face as white as wax.
"What are thy commands?" said the Genie in a terrible voice, that
rumbled like the sound of thunder.
"I--I do not know," said Abdallah, trembling and shaking as with
an ague. "I--I have forgotten."
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