| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: and waited. "I am in good luck to-day," thought he. "It is sure
to cry soon, and a daintier morsel I haven't had for many a long
day." So he waited, and he waited, and he waited, till at last
the child began to cry, and the Wolf came forward before the
window, and looked up to the Nurse, wagging his tail. But all the
Nurse did was to shut down the window and call for help, and the
dogs of the house came rushing out. "Ah," said the Wolf as he
galloped away,
"Enemies promises were made to be broken."
The Tortoise and the Birds
A Tortoise desired to change its place of residence, so he
Aesop's Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: symbols and rites and ceremonials, and (later no doubt)
in myths and legends, which satisfied their FEELINGS and
sense of fitness--though they may not have known WHY--
and afterwards were capable of being taken up and embodied
in the great philosophical religions.
This difficulty almost compels us to a view of human
knowledge which has found supporters among some able
thinkers--the view, namely, that a vast store of knowledge
is already contained in the subconscious mind of man
(and the animals) and only needs the provocation of outer
experience to bring it to the surface; and that in the second
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: she being too honest a woman for the taste of the town. Wherefore I
humbly beg your Majesty to give order that a theatre be endowed out of
the public revenue for the playing of those pieces of mine which no
merchant will touch, seeing that his gain is so much greater with the
worse than with the better. Thereby you shall also encourage other
men to undertake the writing of plays who do now despise it and leave
it wholly to those whose counsels will work little good to your realm.
For this writing of plays is a great matter, forming as it does the
minds and affections of men in such sort that whatsoever they see done
in show on the stage, they will presently be doing in earnest in the
world, which is but a larger stage. Of late, as you know, the Church
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