| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: God's bidding will come; seek not then to hasten it on. Celebrated
be His praises from what they join with Him!
He sends down the angels with the Spirit at His bidding upon whom He
will of His servants (to say), 'Give warning that there is no god
but Me; Me therefore do ye fear.' He created the heavens and the earth
in truth! Exalted be He above that which they join with Him!
He created man from a clot; and yet, behold, he is an open opponent!
The cattle too have we created for you; in them is warmth and
profit, and from them do ye eat.
In them is there beauty for you when ye drive them home to rest, and
when ye drive them forth to graze. And they bear your heavy burdens to
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: That there exist those somewhats which we call
The images of things: these, like to films
Scaled off the utmost outside of the things,
Flit hither and thither through the atmosphere,
And the same terrify our intellects,
Coming upon us waking or in sleep,
When oft we peer at wonderful strange shapes
And images of people lorn of light,
Which oft have horribly roused us when we lay
In slumber- that haply nevermore may we
Suppose that souls get loose from Acheron,
Of The Nature of Things |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: be revived for him; if, with the sweetness of divine love still on his
lips, he has dealt a deadly wound to /her/, his wife in truth, whom he
forsook for a social chimera,--then he must either die or take refuge
in a materialistic, selfish, and heartless philosophy, from which
impassioned souls shrink in horror.
As for Mme. de Beauseant, she doubtless did not imagine that her
friend's despair could drive him to suicide, when he had drunk deep of
love for nine years. Possibly she may have thought that she alone was
to suffer. At any rate, she did quite rightly to refuse the most
humiliating of all positions; a wife may stoop for weighty social
reasons to a kind of compromise which a mistress is bound to hold in
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