| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: sombreros, the colored scarfs, the high-topped, high-heeled boots
with great silver-roweled spurs. Gale did not fail to note, also,
that these cowboys wore guns, and this fact was rather a shock to
his idea of the modern West. It caused him to give some credence
to the rumors of fighting along the border, and he felt a thrill.
He satisfied his hunger in a restaurant adjoining, and as he
stepped back into the saloon a man wearing a military cape jostled
him. Apologies from both were instant. Gale was moving on when
the other stopped short as if startled, and, leaning forward,
exclaimed:
"Dick Gale?"
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: it as their opinion that we had now every chance of riding out
the gale, which, in all probability, could not continue with
the same fury many hours longer; and that even if she should
part from her anchor, the storm-sails had been laid to hand,
and could be bent in a very short time. They further stated
that from the direction of the wind being N.E., she would sail
up the Firth of Forth to Leith Roads. But if this should
appear doubtful, after passing the Island and Light of May, it
might be advisable at once to steer for Tyningham Sands, on
the western side of Dunbar, and there run the vessel ashore.
If this should happen at the time of high-water, or during the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: become aware of an absolute identity, it perceives that there is
a deep relationship and communion between itself and others, and
it comes to understand how it may really be true that to him
whose soul is purified the self is literally the Self of all
creatures.
Ordinary men and those who go on more intellectual and less
intuitional lines will say that these ideas are really contrary
to human nature and to nature generally. Yet I think that those
people who say this in the name of Science are extremely
unscientific, because a very superficial glance at nature reveals
that the very same thing is taking place throughout nature.
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
