| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: dream over and over, and it grew more and more beautiful; till, suddenly,
it seemed as though she were standing quite alone. She looked up: on one
side of her was the high precipice, on the other was the river, with the
willow trees, drooping their branches into the water; and the moonlight was
over all. Up, against the night sky the pointed leaves of the kippersol
trees were clearly marked, and the rocks and the willow trees cast dark
shadows.
In her sleep she shivered, and half awoke.
"Ah, I am not there, I am here," she said; and she crept closer to the
rock, and kissed it, and went to sleep again.
It must have been about three o'clock, for the moon had begun to sink
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: To tame the unicorn and lion wild,
To mock the subtle, in themselves beguil'd;
To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water-drops.
'Why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,
Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
One poor retiring minute in an age
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,
Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends:
O, this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come back,
I could prevent this storm, and shun thy wrack!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: shall be content with her, and ready to submit to whatever she
does: but not with that stupid resignation which some folks
preach who do not believe in lady Why--that is no resignation at
all. That is merely saying -
"What can't be cured
Must be endured,"
like a donkey when he turns his tail to a hail-storm,--but the
true resignation, the resignation which is fit for grown people
and children alike, the resignation which is the beginning and the
end of all wisdom and all religion, is to believe that Lady Why
knows best, because she herself is perfectly good; and that as she
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