| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: THEMSELVES TO STAND IN RELATION TO WHATEVER THEY MAY CONSIDER THE
DIVINE. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or
ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which
we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical
organizations may secondarily grow. In these lectures, however,
as I have already said, the immediate personal experiences will
amply fill our time, and we shall hardly consider theology or
ecclesiasticism at all.
We escape much controversial matter by this arbitrary definition
of our field. But, still, a chance of controversy comes up over
the word "divine," if we take the definition in too narrow a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: departments of the great down-town stores! And now it was
all to go. Some one else would have it all, while she was
relegated to cheap restaurants and meals cooked by hired
servants. Night after night she sobbed herself to sleep at
the thought of her past happiness and her present
wretchedness. However, she was not alone in her unhappiness.
"Anyhow, I'm going to keep the steel engraving an' the stone
pug dog," declared the dentist, his fist clenching. When it
had come to the sale of his office effects McTeague had
rebelled with the instinctive obstinacy of a boy, shutting
his eyes and ears. Only little by little did Trina induce
McTeague |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in
the city:
ACT 24:13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
ACT 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they
call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things
which are written in the law and in the prophets:
ACT 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and
unjust.
ACT 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
void to offence toward God, and toward men.
King James Bible |
