| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: When lauds and Soma juice have made me joyful, both the unbounded
regions are affrighted.
7 All beings know these deeds of thine thou tellest this unto
Varuna,
thou great Disposer!
Thou art renowned as having slain the Vrtras. Thou madest flow
the
floods that were obstructed.
8 Our fathers then were these, the Seven his, what time the
son of
Durgaha was captive.
The Rig Veda |
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: stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice, catechizing a
little girl who had brought her a pint of morning's milk. Goodman
Brown snatched away the child as from the grasp of the fiend
himself. Turning the corner by the meeting-house, he spied the
head of Faith, with the pink ribbons, gazing anxiously forth, and
bursting into such joy at sight of him that she skipped along the
street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village.
But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and
passed on without a greeting.
Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a
wild dream of a witch-meeting?
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: to understand it; and you will hear of something to your advantage... Only
remember that you must not frighten or vex the Ants." Then the goddess
vanished away.
The man immediately went out to look for some Ants. He had scarcely
crossed the threshold of his door when he perceived two Ants upon a stone
supporting one of the house-pillars. He stooped over them, and listened;
and he was astonished to find that he could hear them talking, and could
understand what they said. "Let us try to find a warmer place," proposed
one of the Ants. "Why a warmer place?" asked the other;-- "what is the
matter with this place?" "It is too damp and cold below," said the first
Ant; "there is a big treasure buried here; and the sunshine cannot warm the
Kwaidan |
