| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: As flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
But I can now no more; the parting sun
Beyond the Earth's green Cape and verdant Isles
Hesperian sets, my signal to depart.
Be strong, live happy, and love! But, first of all,
Him, whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command; take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will
Would not admit: thine, and of all thy sons,
The weal or woe in thee is placed; beware!
I in thy persevering shall rejoice,
Paradise Lost |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: all the sport be lost, he did not call to the two sentries, who
were at the opposite ends of the battery; neither did he think it
worth while to rouse the sleeping company, lest his ears should
have deceived him, and the whole camp turn out to repulse the
attack of a buck rabbit.
So he crouched lower and lower beside the culverin, and was
rewarded in a minute or two by hearing something gently deposited
against the mouth of the embrasure, which, by the noise, should be
a piece of timber.
"So far, so good," said he to himself; "when the scaling ladder is
up, the soldier follows, I suppose. I can only humbly thank them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: inaction of his life drove Duane out upon the trails seeking
anything rather than to hide longer alone, a prey to the
scourge of his thoughts. The moment he rode into sight of men a
remarkable transformation occurred in him. A strange warmth
stirred in him--a longing to see the faces of people, to hear
their voices--a pleasurable emotion sad and strange. But it was
only a precursor of his old bitter, sleepless, and eternal
vigilance. When he hid alone in the brakes he was safe from all
except his deeper, better self; when he escaped from this into
the haunts of men his force and will went to the preservation
of his life.
The Lone Star Ranger |
