| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Is not indeed what is in the heavens and what is in the earth God's?
is not indeed the promise of God true? Though most of them know not.
He quickens and He kills, and unto Him are ye returned!
O ye folk! there has come to you a warning from your Lord, and a
balm for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to
believers.
Say, 'By the grace of God and by His mercy,- and in that let them
rejoice! It is better than that which they collect!'
Let us see now what God has sent down to you of provision! and yet
ye have made of it unlawful and lawful. Say, 'Does God permit you,
or against God do ye forge lies?
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their
visible frames return to dust. In this manner, selecting it as
the symbol of his wife's liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and
death, Aylmer's sombre imagination was not long in rendering the
birthmark a frightful object, causing him more trouble and horror
than ever Georgiana's beauty, whether of soul or sense, had given
him delight.
At all the seasons which should have been their happiest, he
invariably and without intending it, nay, in spite of a purpose
to the contrary, reverted to this one disastrous topic. Trifling
as it at first appeared, it so connected itself with innumerable
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: strong, it is not strong enough to force a woman to a marriage for
which she has no liking. Yet it may prove strong enough to keep a
woman from a marriage for which her heart pleads--perhaps, also, it
should have been strong enough to hold me back from the telling of
my love.'
'No, Lily, the love itself is much, and though it should bring no
fruit, still it is something to have won it for ever and a day.'
'You are very young to talk thus, Thomas. I am also young, I know,
but we women ripen quicker. Perhaps all this is but a boy's fancy,
to pass with boyhood.'
'It will never pass, Lily. They say that our first loves are the
Montezuma's Daughter |
