| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: pleased He would have made you one nation, but He will surely try
you concerning that which He has brought you. Be ye therefore
emulous in good deeds; to God is your return altogether, and He will
let you know concerning that wherein ye do dispute.
Wherefore judge thou between them by what God has revealed, and
follow not their lusts; but beware lest they mislead thee from part of
what God has revealed to thee; yet if they turn back, then know that
God wishes to fall on them for some sins of theirs,- verily, many
men are evildoers.
Is it the judgment of the Ignorance they crave? but who is better
than God to judge for people who are sure?
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: Heaven's azure centres in thine eyes,
Thy lashes fall like starry rays.
What more gracious way of saying to a young girl that she fills your
life? Tell me what you think of this love, which expends itself in
lavishing the treasures alike of the earth and of the soul. Only
within the last ten days have I grasped the meaning of that Spanish
gallantry, so famous in old days.
Ah me! dear, what is going on now at La Crampade? How often do I take
a stroll there, inspecting the growth of our crops! Have you no news
to give of our mulberry trees, our last winter's plantations? Does
everything prosper as you wish? And while the buds are opening on our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: maned ferocity shot past him to the breast of his opponent.
Down went the Xujan, his face bitten away by one snap of the
powerful jaws of Numa of the pit.
In the few seconds that had been required for the consum-
mation of these rapidly ensuing events, Otobu had dragged
Bertha Kircher to the gate which he had unbarred and thrown
open, and with the vanquishing of the last of the active guards-
men, the party passed out of the maniac city of Xuja into the
outer darkness beyond. At the same moment a half dozen
lions rounded the last turn in the road leading back toward the
plaza, and at sight of them Numa of the pit wheeled and
Tarzan the Untamed |
