| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: personal experience, therefore) that the scholar succeeds in
bringing himself to a respectful seriousness, and to a certain
timid deference in presence of religions; but even when his
sentiments have reached the stage of gratitude towards them, he
has not personally advanced one step nearer to that which still
maintains itself as Church or as piety; perhaps even the
contrary. The practical indifference to religious matters in the
midst of which he has been born and brought up, usually
sublimates itself in his case into circumspection and
cleanliness, which shuns contact with religious men and things;
and it may be just the depth of his tolerance and humanity which
Beyond Good and Evil |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: This time his voice was very touching; there was a strong,
reproachful force in what he said, and Gertrude could
answer nothing. He turned away and stood there, leaning his
elbows on the gate and looking at the beautiful sunset.
Gertrude left him and took her way home again; but when she reached
the middle of the next field she suddenly burst into tears.
Her tears seemed to her to have been a long time gathering,
and for some moments it was a kind of glee to shed them.
But they presently passed away. There was something a little
hard about Gertrude; and she never wept again.
CHAPTER VI
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: weather.
Never more shall British seamen going into action have to trust the
success of their valour to a breath of wind. The God of gales and
battles favouring her arms to the last, has let the sun of
England's sailing-fleet and of its greatest master set in unclouded
glory. And now the old ships and their men are gone; the new ships
and the new men, many of them bearing the old, auspicious names,
have taken up their watch on the stern and impartial sea, which
offers no opportunities but to those who know how to grasp them
with a ready hand and an undaunted heart.
XLIX.
The Mirror of the Sea |
