| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: venit et legati ad eum reverterunt, negat se more et exemplo populi Romani
posse iter ulli per provinciam dare et, si vim lacere conentur,
prohibiturum ostendit. Helvetii ea spe deiecti navibus iunctis ratibusque
compluribus factis, alii vadis Rhodani, qua minima altitudo fluminis erat,
non numquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis
munitione et militum concursu et telis repulsi, hoc conatu destiterunt.
Relinquebatur una per Sequanos via, qua Sequanis invitis propter
angustias ire non poterant. His cum sua sponte persuadere non possent,
legatos ad Dumnorigem Haeduum mittunt, ut eo deprecatore a Sequanis
impetrarent. Dumnorix gratia et largitione apud Sequanos plurimum poterat
et Helvetiis erat amicus, quod ex ea civitate Orgetorigis filiam in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: over her--and then deadly apprehension. The light of
the fiery hours in the little house swept back on her
in a glare of fear....
She forced herself to look away from her guardian,
and became aware that the oratory of the Hatchard
cousin had ceased, and that Mr. Miles was again
flapping his wings. Fragments of his peroration
floated through her bewildered brain...."A rich harvest
of hallowed memories....A sanctified hour to which, in
moments of trial, your thoughts will prayerfully
return....And now, O Lord, let us humbly and fervently
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: spirit, all firmness forsook me, all manhood melted from me like
wax in the furnace, and I felt my hair individually bristle. The
current of my life-blood ceased to flow, and I sank back in a
swoon, as very a victim to panic terror as ever was a village
girl, or a child of ten years old. How long I lay in this
condition I cannot pretend to guess.
"But I was roused by the castle clock striking one, so loud that
it seemed as if it were in the very room. It was some time
before I dared open my eyes, lest they should again encounter the
horrible spectacle. When, however, I summoned courage to look
up, she was no longer visible. My first idea was to pull my
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