| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: again as he had been the day he had proposed marriage to her and
for the first time she was sure that she could interpret the
puzzling look that had come into his eyes when she had asked him
why he thought she could make him happy. What had he understood
about happiness? With a noiseless sob, she remembered that he had
answered her in terms of the only thing he had understood--work.
And she saw him again, too, as he had been the night he had so
bluntly told her of his passion for Rose. It seemed to her now,
free of all rancor, unutterably tragic that the only person
Martin had loved should have come into his life too late.
He was not to be blamed because he had never been able to care
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: like some other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from the
sphere of mathematics, may be doubted. That Plato and the most subtle
philosopher of the nineteenth century should have lighted upon the same
notion, is a singular coincidence of ancient and modern thought.
IV. The one and the many or others are reduced to their strictest
arithmetical meaning. That one is three or three one, is a proposition
which has, perhaps, given rise to more controversy in the world than any
other. But no one has ever meant to say that three and one are to be taken
in the same sense. Whereas the one and many of the Parmenides have
precisely the same meaning; there is no notion of one personality or
substance having many attributes or qualities. The truth seems to be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: that fear had begun already to assail me, when I became
aware, all at once and as though by some immediate but silent
incandescence, of a certain glimmering of light upon the
passage floor. Towards this I groped my way with infinite
precaution; and having come at length as far as the angle of
the corridor, beheld the door of the butler's pantry standing
just ajar and a narrow thread of brightness falling from the
chink. Creeping still closer, I put my eye to the aperture.
The man sat within upon a chair, listening, I could see, with
the most rapt attention. On a table before him he had laid a
watch, a pair of steel revolvers, and a bull's-eye lantern.
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