| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: He hath checked e'en their haste who glide like serpents. Night
closely followed Savitar's dominion.
4 What was spread out she weaves afresh, re-weaving: the skilful
leaves his labour half-completed.
He hath arisen from rest, and parted seasons: Savitar hath
approached,
God, holy-minded.
5 Tlirough various dwellings, through entire existence, spreads,
manifest, the household light of Agni.
The Mother gives her Son the goodliest portion, and Savitar
hath sped
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: whether he should carry the "J" along as an initial put
itself to his mind. He decided vigorously against it.
He had always had a prejudice against men who, in the
transatlantic phrase, parted either their hair or their
names in the middle.
He had made his unheeding way past the house to the
beginning of the avenue of trees, which he remembered
from the previous evening's drive. To his right, an open
space of roadway led off in the direction of the stables.
As he hesitated, in momentary doubt which course to take,
the sound of hoofs in the avenue caught his ear,
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: precaution is taken of looking only at the image reflected in the water, or
in a glass. (Compare Laws; Republic.) 'I was afraid,' says Socrates,
'that I might injure the eye of the soul. I thought that I had better
return to the old and safe method of ideas. Though I do not mean to say
that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas sees only
through a glass darkly, any more than he who contemplates actual effects.'
If the existence of ideas is granted to him, Socrates is of opinion that he
will then have no difficulty in proving the immortality of the soul. He
will only ask for a further admission:--that beauty is the cause of the
beautiful, greatness the cause of the great, smallness of the small, and so
on of other things. This is a safe and simple answer, which escapes the
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