| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: Sunday
Pulled through.
Tuesday
She has taken up with a snake now. The other animals are glad,
for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them;
and I am glad, because the snake talks, and this enables me to
get a rest.
Friday
She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and
says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. I
told her there would be another result, too--it would introduce
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: that was going on, yet too deep for your ordinary thought
to grasp? Has it not occurred to you--in a moment say of
great danger when the mind was agitated to the last degree by
fears and anxieties--suddenly to become perfectly calm and
collected, to realize that NOTHING can harm you, that you are
identified with some great and universal being lifted far over
this mortal world and unaffected by its storms? Is it not
obvious that the real Self MUST be something of this nature,
a being perceiving all, but itself remaining unperceived? For
indeed if it were perceived it would fall under the head of some
definable quality, and so becoming the object of thought would
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
Presently Mrs. Inglethorp turned to give some instructions about
letters to Evelyn Howard, and her husband addressed me in his
painstaking voice:
"Is soldiering your regular profession, Mr. Hastings?"
"No, before the war I was in Lloyd's."
"And you will return there after it is over?"
"Perhaps. Either that or a fresh start altogether."
Mary Cavendish leant forward.
"What would you really choose as a profession, if you could just
consult your inclination?"
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
