| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: your possessions to the poor," or "know yourself," and because it
is so easy to say that, I don't know what to answer.
My colleagues when they teach therapeutics advise "the individual
study of each separate case." One has but to obey this advice to
gain the conviction that the methods recommended in the textbooks
as the best and as providing a safe basis for treatment turn out
to be quite unsuitable in individual cases. It is just the same
in moral ailments.
But I must make some answer, and I say:
"You have too much free time, my dear; you absolutely must take
up some occupation. After all, why shouldn't you be an actress
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: this, as I would submit to gout or gray hair, as a concomitant
of growing age or else of failing animal heat; but I do not
acknowledge that it is necessarily a change for the better - I
daresay it is deplorably for the worse. I have no choice in
the business, and can no more resist this tendency of my mind
than I could prevent my body from beginning to totter and
decay. If I am spared (as the phrase runs) I shall doubtless
outlive some troublesome desires; but I am in no hurry about
that; nor, when the time comes, shall I plume myself on the
immunity just in the same way, I do not greatly pride myself
on having outlived my belief in the fairy tales of Socialism.
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 31: 8 Then shall Asshur fall with the sword, not of man, and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary.
Isaiah 31: 9 And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32: 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and as for princes, they shall rule in justice.
Isaiah 32: 2 And a man shall be as in a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as by the watercourses in a dry place, as in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 32: 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be closed, and the ears of them that hear shall attend.
Isaiah 32: 4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah 32: 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.
Isaiah 32: 6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah 32: 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil; he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, and the needy when he speaketh right.
Isaiah 32: 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
The Tanach |
