| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: he shall gain nothing by that move; for I will go and lie on the couch next
to you.
Yes, yes, replied Socrates, by all means come here and lie on the couch
below me.
Alas, said Alcibiades, how I am fooled by this man; he is determined to get
the better of me at every turn. I do beseech you, allow Agathon to lie
between us.
Certainly not, said Socrates, as you praised me, and I in turn ought to
praise my neighbour on the right, he will be out of order in praising me
again when he ought rather to be praised by me, and I must entreat you to
consent to this, and not be jealous, for I have a great desire to praise
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: rendezvous. It only remained," he said, "that the noble Chiefs
assembled, laying aside every lesser consideration, should unite,
heart and hand, in the common cause; send the fiery cross through
their clans, in order to collect their utmost force, and form
their junction with such celerity as to leave the enemy no time,
either for preparation, or recovery from the panic which would
spread at the first sound of their pibroch. He himself," he
said, "though neither among the richest nor the most powerful of
the Scottish nobility, felt that he had to support the dignity of
an ancient and honourable house, the independence of an ancient
and honourable nation, and to that cause he was determined to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: Indeed, it would be hard to exaggerate the pleasure that we
took in the approach of evening. Our day was not very long,
but it was very tiring. To trip along unsteady planks or
wade among shifting stones, to go to and fro for water, to
clamber down the glen to the Toll House after meat and
letters, to cook, to make fires and beds, were all exhausting
to the body. Life out of doors, besides, under the fierce
eye of day, draws largely on the animal spirits. There are
certain hours in the afternoon when a man, unless he is in
strong health or enjoys a vacant mind, would rather creep
into a cool corner of a house and sit upon the chairs of
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