| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Turn from me now, but always see
The laughing shadowy girl who stood
At midnight by the flowering tree,
With eyes that love had made as bright
As the trembling stars of the summer night.
Turn from me now, but always hear
The muted laughter in the dew
Of that one year of youth we had,
The only youth we ever knew --
Turn from me now, or you will see
What other years have done to me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: coming, and had opened one or two of the rooms, and prepared
a fire in her bedroom. Anna shut herself in, refusing the
woman's ministrations. She felt cold and faint, and after
she had taken off her hat and cloak she knelt down by the
fire and stretched her hands to it.
In one respect, at least, it was clear to her that she would
do well to follow Sophy Viner's counsel. It had been an act
of folly to follow Owen, and her first business was to get
back to Givre before him. But the only train leaving that
evening was a slow one, which did not reach Francheuil till
midnight, and she knew that her taking it would excite
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: agitation I would use them unconsciously), and being enormously amused
at my terrors. Yet when that same lady discovered that I had found a
copy of The Arabian Nights and was devouring it with avidity, she was
horrified, and hid it away from me lest it should break my soul as the
pony might have broken my neck. This way of producing hardy bodies
and timid souls is so common in country houses that you may spend
hours in them listening to stories of broken collar bones, broken
backs, and broken necks without coming upon a single spiritual
adventure or daring thought.
But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or
physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man
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