| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Silence must reign;
Or it brings the heart
Smart
And pain.
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
BY SIMON DACH
Oh, how blest are ye whose toils are ended!
Who, through death, have unto God ascended!
Ye have arisen
From the cares which keep us still in prison.
We are still as in a dungeon living,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: made their number a trial to those who misbelieve; that those who have
been given the Book may be certain, and that those who believe may
be increased in faith; and that those who have been given the Book and
the believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts is
sickness, and the misbelievers may say, 'What does God mean by this as
a parable?'
Thus God leads astray whom He pleases, and guides him He pleases:
and none knows the hosts of thy Lord save Himself; and it is only a
reminder to mortals!
Nay, by the moon!
And the night when it retires!
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: "Hurry up, you others!" he called out to his comrades. "It's getting
hot."
When they reached a gravel path behind the house the Frenchman
pulled Pierre by the arm and pointed to a round, graveled space
where a three-year-old girl in a pink dress was lying under a seat.
"There is your child! Oh, a girl, so much the better!" said the
Frenchman. "Good-by, Fatty. We must be human, we are all mortal you
know!" and the Frenchman with the spot on his cheek ran back to his
comrades.
Breathless with joy, Pierre ran to the little girl and was going
to take her in his arms. But seeing a stranger the sickly,
War and Peace |
