| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: because the misbelievers have no patron.
Verily, God causes those who believe and do right to enter into
gardens beneath which rivers flow; but those who misbelieve enjoy
themselves and eat as the cattle eat; but the fire is the resort for
them!
How many a city, stronger than thy city which has driven thee out,
have we destroyed, and there was none to help them!
Is he who rests upon a manifest sign from his Lord like him, the
evil of whose works is made seemly to him, and who follow their lusts?
The similitude of Paradise which is promised to the pious,-in it are
rivers of water without corruption, and rivers of milk, the taste
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: passage beyond any hope of retreat for those in advance.
Raising my voice to its utmost, I shouted my command
to the dwars ahead of me.
"Call back the last twenty-five utans," I shouted.
"Here seems a way of escape. Turn back and follow me."
My orders were obeyed by nearer thirty utans, so that some
three thousand men came about and hastened into the teeth
of the flood to reach the corridor up which I directed them.
As the first dwar passed in with his utan I cautioned him
to listen closely for my commands, and under no circumstances
to venture into the open, or leave the pits for the temple
The Gods of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Why, they're made in a good many small pieces," explained the
kangaroo; "and whenever any stranger comes near them they have a
habit of falling apart and scattering themselves around. That's when
they get so dreadfully mixed, and it's a hard puzzle to put them
together again."
"Who usually puts them together?" asked Omby Amby.
"Any one who is able to match the pieces. I sometimes put Grandmother
Gnit together myself, because I know her so well I can tell every
piece that belongs to her. Then, when she's all matched, she knits
for me, and that's how she made my mittens. But it took a good many
days hard knitting, and I had to put Grandmother together a good many
The Emerald City of Oz |
