| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Who by the loud sea-shore gave judgment forth,
From dawn to eve, bearded and few of words.
What, what, was I to honour thee? A child;
A youth in ardour but a child in strength,
Who after virtue's golden chariot-wheels
Runs ever panting, nor attains the goal.
So thought I, and was sorrowful at heart.
Since then my steps have visited that flood
Along whose shore the numerous footfalls cease,
The voices and the tears of life expire.
Thither the prints go down, the hero's way
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: the raft reeled again, and he was carried overboard a long way
off. He let go the helm, and the force of the hurricane was so
great that it broke the mast half way up, and both sail and yard
went over into the sea. For a long time Ulysses was under water,
and it was all he could do to rise to the surface again, for the
clothes Calypso had given him weighed him down; but at last he
got his head above water and spat out the bitter brine that was
running down his face in streams. In spite of all this, however,
he did not lose sight of his raft, but swam as fast as he could
towards it, got hold of it, and climbed on board again so as to
escape drowning. The sea took the raft and tossed it about as
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: BEVIS.
Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a brave
mind than a hard hand.
HOLLAND.
I see them! I see them! There's Best's son, the
tanner of Wingham,--
BEVIS.
He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make dog's-
leather of.
HOLLAND.
And Dick the butcher,--
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