| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: could sustain. There was but little difference, whether I was
asleep or awake, but if there was any difference, the sweetness
was greatest while I was asleep.[159] As I awoke early the next
morning, it seemed to me that I had entirely done with myself. I
felt that the opinions of the world concerning me were nothing,
and that I had no more to do with any outward interest of my own
than with that of a person whom I never saw. The glory of God
seemed to swallow up every wish and desire of my heart. . . .
After retiring to rest and sleeping a little while, I awoke, and
was led to reflect on God's mercy to me, in giving me, for many
years, a willingness to die; and after that, in making me willing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: the still overwhelming sensualism which overflowed from the last
century into this, in short--"sensus assoupire." ...
12. As regards materialistic atomism, it is one of the best-
refuted theories that have been advanced, and in Europe there is
now perhaps no one in the learned world so unscholarly as to
attach serious signification to it, except for convenient
everyday use (as an abbreviation of the means of expression)--
thanks chiefly to the Pole Boscovich: he and the Pole Copernicus
have hitherto been the greatest and most successful opponents of
ocular evidence. For while Copernicus has persuaded us to
believe, contrary to all the senses, that the earth does NOT
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: after his manner, to plan great things, to dream of great
fortunes for himself and Nina. Especially for Nina! Under these
vivifying impulses he asked Captain Ford to write to his friends
in England making inquiries after Lingard. Was he alive or dead?
If dead, had he left any papers, documents; any indications or
hints as to his great enterprise? Meantime he had found amongst
the rubbish in one of the empty rooms a note-book belonging to
the old adventurer. He studied the crabbed handwriting of its
pages and often grew meditative over it. Other things also woke
him up from his apathy. The stir made in the whole of the island
by the establishment of the British Borneo Company affected even
Almayer's Folly |
