| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: all thy getting get understanding.
PRO 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to
honour, when thou dost embrace her.
PRO 4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of
glory shall she deliver to thee.
PRO 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy
life shall be many.
PRO 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in
right paths.
PRO 4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when
thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: dispute any longer about nominalism and realism. We do not confuse the
form with the matter of knowledge, or invent laws of thought, or imagine
that any single science furnishes a principle of reasoning to all the rest.
Neither do we require categories or heads of argument to be invented for
our use. Those who have no knowledge of logic, like some of our great
physical philosophers, seem to be quite as good reasoners as those who
have. Most of the ancient puzzles have been settled on the basis of usage
and common sense; there is no need to reopen them. No science should raise
problems or invent forms of thought which add nothing to knowledge and are
of no use in assisting the acquisition of it. This seems to be the natural
limit of logic and metaphysics; if they give us a more comprehensive or a
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: who kept the house, and Grace was admitted. Opening the door of
the doctor's room the housewife glanced in, and imagining
Fitzpiers absent, asked Miss Melbury to enter and wait a few
minutes while she should go and find him, believing him to be
somewhere on the premises. Grace acquiesced, went in, and sat
down close to the door.
As soon as the door was shut upon her she looked round the room,
and started at perceiving a handsome man snugly ensconced in the
couch, like the recumbent figure within some canopied mural tomb
of the fifteenth century, except that his hands were by no means
clasped in prayer. She had no doubt that this was the doctor.
The Woodlanders |
