| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: Taillefer answered, addressing Desroches.
" 'Oh, pooh, there is only one man who knows how much THEY are worth,'
put in Werbrust, a friend of the deceased.
" 'Who?'
" 'That fat rogue Nucingen; he will go as far as the cemetery;
d'Aldrigger was his master once, and out of gratitude he put the old
man's capital into his business.'
" 'The widow will soon feel a great difference.'
" 'What do you mean?'
" 'Well, d'Aldrigger was so fond of his wife. Now, don't laugh, people
are looking at us.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: Two hours more of walking brought us through Ausser-gschloss and
Inner-gschloss, two groups of herdsmen's huts, tenanted only in
summer, at the head of the Tauernthal. Midway between them lies a
little chapel, cut into the solid rock for shelter from the
avalanches. This lofty vale is indeed rightly named; for it is
shut off from the rest of the world. The portal is a cliff down
which the stream rushes in foam and thunder. On either hand rises
a mountain wall. Within, the pasture is fresh and green, sprinkled
with Alpine roses, and the pale river flows swiftly down between
the rows of dark wooden houses. At the head of the vale towers the
Gross-Venediger, with its glaciers and snow-fields dazzling white
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Verily, we sent Noah to his people, 'Warn thy people before there
come to them a grievous torment!'
Said he, 'O my people! verily, I am to you an obvious warner, that
ye serve God and fear Him and obey me. He will pardon you your sins,
and will defer you unto an appointed time; verily, God's appointed
time when it comes will not be deferred, did ye but know!'
Said he, 'My Lord! verily, I have called my people by night and day,
and my call did but increase them in flight; and, verily, every time I
called them, that Thou mightest pardon them, they placed their fingers
in their ears and tried to cover themselves with their garments and
The Koran |
