| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Give our bodies to be eaten
By the wicked Nee-ba-naw-baigs,
By the Spirits of the water!
So the angry Little People
All conspired against the Strong Man,
All conspired to murder Kwasind,
Yes, to rid the world of Kwasind,
The audacious, overbearing,
Heartless, haughty, dangerous Kwasind!
Now this wondrous strength of Kwasind
In his crown alone was seated;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: the effect that temporary illness obliged him to leave the
Colonel in command of the troops for the time being. This
commonplace but very plausible stratagem relieved him of all
responsibility for the time necessary to carry out his plans.
The General, nothing if not "catholic and monarchical," took
occasion to inform himself of the hours of the services, and
manifested the greatest zeal for the performance of his religious
duties, piety which caused no remark in Spain.
The very next day, while the division was marching out of the
town, the General went to the convent to be present at vespers.
He found an empty church. The townsfolk, devout though they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: with the brightest sights, making beautiful his feet, and shoeing
them with `the preparation of the Gospel of peace,' that he may
walk safely and without delay, this way, then, I rightly chose
above all others, and began to rebuild my soul's habitation,
which had fallen into ruin and decay.
"In such wise was I devising mine estate, and establishing mine
unstable mind, when I heard the words of a wise teacher calling
loudly to me thus, `Come ye out,' said he, `all ye that will to
be saved. Be ye separate from the vanity of the world, for the
fashion thereof quickly passeth away, and behold it shall not be.
Come ye out, without turning back, not for nothing and without
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