| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: MAT 13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their
unbelief.
MAT 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
MAT 14:2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is
risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves
in him.
MAT 14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in
prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
MAT 14:4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
MAT 14:5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the
multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: But if they be of God they are for none
To overthrow, he spoke as a good Jew,
And one who stayed a Jew; and he said all.
And you know, by the temper of your faith,
How far the fire is in you that I felt
Before I knew Damascus. A word here,
Or there, or not there, or not anywhere,
Is not the Word that lives and is the life;
And you, therefore, need weary not yourselves
With jealous aches of others. If the world
Were not a world of aches and innovations,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: to whom life hath given itself--we are ever considering WHAT we can best
give IN RETURN!
And verily, it is a noble dictum which saith: "What life promiseth US,
that promise will WE keep--to life!"
One should not wish to enjoy where one doth not contribute to the
enjoyment. And one should not WISH to enjoy!
For enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things. Neither like to
be sought for. One should HAVE them,--but one should rather SEEK for guilt
and pain!--
6.
O my brethren, he who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. Now, however, are
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
