| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: The two men leaned lazily against the bulwark watching
the other passengers who were squabbling about trunks.
Mr. Perry suddenly stood upright as a group of women
passed.
"Do you know who that girl is?" he said eagerly. "The
one who looked back at us over her shoulder."
"No. They are only a lot of school-girls, personally
conducted. That is the teacher in front."
"Of course, I see that. But the short, dark one--surely
I know that woman."
The doctor looked after her. "She looks like a dog
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: go forth from the Fire, but they shall not go forth therefrom, for
them is lasting woe.
The man thief and the woman thief, cut off the hands of both as a
punishment, for that they have erred;- an example from God, for God is
mighty, wise.
But whoso turns again after his injustice and acts aright, verily,
God will turn to him, for, verily, God is forgiving, merciful.
Do ye not know that God, His is the kingdom of the heavens and the
earth; He punishes whom He pleases, and forgives whom He pleases,
for God is mighty over all?
O thou Apostle! let not those grieve thee who vie in misbelief; or
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: One largest and most lustrous onward drew,
That it might yield contentment to my wish;
And from within it these the sounds I heard.
"If thou, like me, beheldst the charity
That burns amongst us, what thy mind conceives,
Were utter'd. But that, ere the lofty bound
Thou reach, expectance may not weary thee,
I will make answer even to the thought,
Which thou hast such respect of. In old days,
That mountain, at whose side Cassino rests,
Was on its height frequented by a race
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
