| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: sitting with crossed legs, so many of them--as if the legs were
made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon--I think that
they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide
long ago.
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without
acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a
walk at the eleventh hour, or four o'clock in the afternoon, too
late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already
beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had
committed some sin to be atoned for,--I confess that I am
astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: several inches and then creep closer to him. It sank and arose
again--a headless, hideous, monstrous thing of menace. Its very
silence rendered it the more terrible.
Bradley was a brave man; ordinarily his nerves were of steel; but
to be at the mercy of some unknown and nameless horror, to be
unable to defend himself--it was these things that almost
unstrung him, for at best he was only human. To stand in the
open, even with the odds all against him; to be able to use his
fists, to put up some sort of defense, to inflict punishment upon
his adversary--then he could face death with a smile. It was not
death that he feared now--it was that horror of the unknown that
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: shall stand convinced. Meantime, withdraw--I loved thine
infancy, I hate not thy youth--no eye hates the rose in its
blossom, though it groweth upon a thorn, and for thee only do I
something regret what is soon to follow. But he that would
avenge him of his foe must not reck though the guiltless be
engaged in the ruin."
"He advises well, Annot," said Lord Menteith; "in God's name
retire! if--if there be aught in this, your meeting with Sir
Duncan must he more prepared for both your sakes."
"I will not part from my father, if I have found one!" said
Annot--"I will not part from him under circumstances so
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