| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen
for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the
corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous
vitality she had stored so long.
We saw the three or four automobiles and the crowd when we were still
some distance away.
"Wreck!" said Tom. "That's good. Wilson'll have a little business
at last."
He slowed down, but still without any intention of stopping, until,
as we came nearer, the hushed, intent faces of the people at the garage
door made him automatically put on the brakes.
The Great Gatsby |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Lightly she leaped to a log lapped in the water;
Holding on high and apart skins that arrayed her,
Called she the God of the Wind that He should aid her.
Life had the tree at that word (Praise we the Giver!)
Otter-like left he the bank for the full river.
Far fell their axes behind, flashing and ringing,
Wonder was on me and fear -- yet she was singing!
Low lay the land we had left. Now the blue bound us,
Even the Floor of the Gods level around us.
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: harmony with other branches of knowledge, to be considered true;
and yet the best man at this science might be the man who found
it hardest to be personally devout. Tout savoir c'est tout
pardonner. The name of Renan would doubtless occur to many
persons as an example of the way in which breadth of knowledge
may make one only a dilettante in possibilities, and blunt the
acuteness of one's living faith.[332] If religion be a function
by which either God's cause or man's cause is to be really
advanced, then he who lives the life of it, however narrowly, is
a better servant than he who merely knows about it, however much.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a
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