| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: cords. The Mouse, passing that way, and seeing that his benefactor
was helpless, gnawed off his tail.
The Old Man and His Sons
AN Old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in
a bundle of sticks and asked the young men to break it. After
repeated efforts they confessed that it could not be done.
"Behold," said the Old Man, "the advantage of unity; as long as
these sticks are in alliance they are invincible, but observe how
feeble they are individually."
Pulling a single stick from the bundle, he broke it easily upon the
head of the eldest Son, and this he repeated until all had been
Fantastic Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: are permanent materializations. It is even said that
such is Tario, but that cannot be, for he existed before
we had discovered the full possibilities of suggestion.
"There are others among us who insist that none of us is real.
That we could not have existed all these ages without material
food and water had we ourselves been material. Although I am
a realist, I rather incline toward this belief myself.
"It seems well and sensibly based upon the belief that
our ancient forbears developed before their extinction
such wondrous mentalities that some of the stronger minds
among them lived after the death of their bodies--that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: that, Uma and her mother had been looked down upon, of course, for
kinless folk and out-islanders, but nothing to hurt; and, even when
Ioane came forward, there was less trouble at first than might have
been looked for. And then, all of a sudden, about six months
before my coming, Ioane backed out and left that part of the
island, and from that day to this Uma and her mother had found
themselves alone. None called at their house, none spoke to them
on the roads. If they went to church, the other women drew their
mats away and left them in a clear place by themselves. It was a
regular excommunication, like what you read of in the Middle Ages;
and the cause or sense of it beyond guessing. It was some TALA
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