| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: injury to them.
3. Therefore all in the world delight to exalt him and do not weary of
him. Because he does not strive, no one finds it possible to strive
with him.
67. 1. All the world says that, while my Tao is great, it yet appears
to be inferior (to other systems of teaching). Now it is just its
greatness that makes it seem to be inferior. If it were like any
other (system), for long would its smallness have been known!
2. But I have three precious things which I prize and hold fast. The
first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking
from taking precedence of others.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: the camp, with the swiftness of the young men of his
country, so renowned for their agility; but whatever might
be his speed, the first who fired, having had time to
reload, fired a second shot, and this time so well aimed
that it struck his hat, and carried it ten paces from him.
As he, however, had no other hat, he picked up this as he
ran, and arrived at his quarters very pale and quite out of
breath. He sat down without saying a word to anybody, and
began to reflect.
This event might have three causes:
The first and the most natural was that it might be an
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: consistend with due decroum, and began work. No one knew better
than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between
freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the
agreeable conduct of business. A secretary, with the
good-humored deference common to every one in Stepan
Arkadyevitch's office, cae up with papers, and began to speak in
the familiar and easy tone which had been introduced by Stepan
Arkadyevitch.
"We have succeeded in getting the information from the government
department of Penza. Here, would you care?..."
"You've got them at last?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laying his
Anna Karenina |
