| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: up in time to save the race. Then said the Tortoise:
"Plodding wins the race."
The Old Man and Death
An old labourer, bent double with age and toil, was gathering
sticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that he
threw down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: "I cannot bear
this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would only come and take
me!"
As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to
him: "What wouldst thou, Mortal? I heard thee call me."
"Please, sir," replied the woodcutter, "would you kindly help
Aesop's Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: mounted. Then he shouted a final word to the prisoners, saying they would
be looked after, and drove the pack-ponies into the trail. As we rode out
we passed several of the horses that we had decided to leave behind, and as
they wanted to follow us it was necessary to drive them back.
I had my hands full with the big, steel-jawed steed I was trying to hold
in. It was the hardest work of the kind that I had ever undertaken. I had
never worn spurs, but now I began to wish for them. We traveled at a good
clip, as fast as the pack-ponies could go, and covered a long distance by
camping-time. I was surprised that we did not get out of the canyon. The
place where we camped was a bare, rocky opening, with a big pool in the
center. While we were making camp it suddenly came over me that I was
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: QUEEN MARGARET.
So come to you and yours as to this prince!
[She is taken out.]
KING EDWARD.
Where's Richard gone?
CLARENCE.
To London, all in post, and, as I guess,
To make a bloody supper in the Tower.
KING EDWARD.
He's sudden if a thing comes in his head.
Now march we hence; discharge the common sort
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