| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: had tried to follow backward the frescoes he had passed on the
way in. True, they were so confused and duplicated that they could
not have done him much good, but he wished none the less he had
made the attempt. Those he now saw were even more horrible than
those he had seen then, and he knew he was not in the corridors
leading outside. In time he became quite sure he was not followed,
and slackened his pace somewhat; but scarce had he breathed in
half relief when a new peril beset him. His lamp was waning, and
he would soon be in pitch blackness with no means of sight or
guidance.
When the light was all gone he groped slowly in the
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: The daughter of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas! I knew not this, and therefore did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its helpless form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I complaind in the mild air, because I fade away.
And lay me down in thy cold bed, and leave my shining lot.
Queen of the vales, the matron Clay answered: I heard thy sighs.
And all thy moans flew o'er my roof, but I have call'd them down:
Wilt thou O Queen enter my house, tis given thee to enter,
And to return: fear nothing, enter with thy virgin feet.
Poems of William Blake |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: so many sheep, having no will or character of our own, but rushing
altogether blindly over the same gap, in foolish fear of the same
dog, who, after all, dare not bite us; and so it always was and
always will be.
For the third time I say,
Unless above himself he can
Exalt himself, how poor a thing is man.
But, nevertheless, any man or woman who WILL, in any age and under
any circumstances, can live the heroic life and exercise heroic
influences.
If any ask proof of this, I shall ask them, in return, to read two
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