| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: gnarled tree, which was encircled round by the ardent love of a vine, and
hidden from itself; from this there hung yellow grapes in abundance,
confronting the wanderer. Then he felt inclined to quench a little thirst,
and to break off for himself a cluster of grapes. When, however, he had
already his arm out-stretched for that purpose, he felt still more inclined
for something else--namely, to lie down beside the tree at the hour of
perfect noontide and sleep.
This Zarathustra did; and no sooner had he laid himself on the ground in
the stillness and secrecy of the variegated grass, than he had forgotten
his little thirst, and fell asleep. For as the proverb of Zarathustra
saith: "One thing is more necessary than the other." Only that his eyes
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: ignorant of it. Besides, I have pointed out what are the laws of nature;
and, with no other principle upon which to found my reasonings except the
infinite perfection of God, I endeavored to demonstrate all those about
which there could be any room for doubt, and to prove that they are such,
that even if God had created more worlds, there could have been none in
which these laws were not observed. Thereafter, I showed how the greatest
part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws,
dispose and arrange itself in such a way as to present the appearance of
heavens; how in the meantime some of its parts must compose an earth and
some planets and comets, and others a sun and fixed stars. And, making a
digression at this stage on the subject of light, I expounded at
Reason Discourse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: want to give himself time to think about his task. Mr. Travers
was sitting up on the camp bedstead with a light cotton sheet
over his legs. He stared at nothing, and on approaching him
d'Alcacer disregarded the slight sinking of his own heart at this
aspect which seemed to be that of extreme terror. "This is
awful," he thought. The man kept as still as a hare in its form.
The impressed d'Alcacer had to make an effort to bring himself to
tap him lightly on the shoulder.
"The moment has come, Travers, to show some fortitude," he said
with easy intimacy. Mr. Travers looked up swiftly. "I have just
been talking to your wife. She had a communication from Captain
The Rescue |
