| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Then off they flew on their roystering way,
And the keen moon fired the light foam flying
Up from the flood where the faint stars play,
And the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.
'T was a king's fair son with a king's fair daughter,
And full three hundred beside, they say, --
Revelling on for the lone, cold slaughter
So soon to seize them and hide them for aye;
But they danced and they drank and their souls grew gay,
Nor ever they knew of a ghoul's eye spying
Their splendor a flickering phantom to stray
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: reigns in his stead.
From that moment he ceases to belong to the body politic in any
active sense. Not that he is no longer a member of society nor
unamenable to its general laws, but that he has become a respectable
declasse, as it were. He has entered, so to speak, the social
nirvana, a not unfitting first step, as he regards it, toward
entering the eventual nirvana beyond. Such abdication now takes
place without particular cause. After a certain time of life, and
long before a man grows old, it is the fashion thus to make one's bow.
Chapter 4. Language.
A man's personal equation, as astronomers call the effect of his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: Timaeus. In the first stage of his philosophy Plato attributed Ideas to
all things, at any rate to all things which have classes or common notions:
these he supposed to exist only by participation in them. In the later
Dialogues he no longer included in them manufactured articles and ideas of
relation, but restricted them to 'types of nature,' and having become
convinced that the many cannot be parts of the one, for the idea of
participation in them he substituted imitation of them. To quote Dr.
Jackson's own expressions,--'whereas in the period of the Republic and the
Phaedo, it was proposed to pass through ontology to the sciences, in the
period of the Parmenides and the Philebus, it is proposed to pass through
the sciences to ontology': or, as he repeats in nearly the same words,--
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