| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: run to waste, excepting a few patches which had been dug up and
planted with ordinary pot herbs. Some statues, which had
ornamented the garden in its days of splendour, were now thrown
down from their pedestals and broken in pieces; and a large
summer-house, having a heavy stone front, decorated with carving
representing the life and actions of Samson, was in the same
dilapidated condition.
They had just traversed this garden of the sluggard, and were
within a few steps of the door of the mansion, when Lambourne had
ceased speaking; a circumstance very agreeable to Tressilian, as
it saved him the embarrassment of either commenting upon or
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: before his face as if driving away flies.
Vasili Andreevich stood silent and motionless for half a
minute. Then suddenly, with the same resolution with which he
used to strike hands when making a good purchase, he took a
step back and turning up his sleeves began raking the snow off
Nikita and out of the sledge. Having done this he hurriedly
undid his girdle, opened out his fur coat, and having pushed
Nikita down, lay down on top of him, covering him not only with
his fur coat but with the whole of his body, which glowed with
warmth. After pushing the skirts of his coat between Nikita
and the sides of the sledge, and holding down its hem with his
Master and Man |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: Truth may be captured. Nothing but Truth can hold Truth."
The hunter arose. "I will go," he said.
But wisdom detained him.
"Mark you well--who leaves these valleys never returns to them. Though he
should weep tears of blood seven days and nights upon the confines, he can
never put his foot across them. Left--they are left forever. Upon the
road which you would travel there is no reward offered. Who goes, goes
freely--for the great love that is in him. The work is his reward."
"I go" said the hunter; "but upon the mountains, tell me, which path shall
I take?"
"I am the child of The-Accumulated-Knowledge-of-Ages," said the man; "I can
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