| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: sinned!
The hypocrites, men and women, some of them follow others, bidding
what is wrong and forbidding what is right, and they clench their
hands. They forget God and He forgets them! Verily, the hypocrites,
they are the doers of abomination!
God has promised unto the hypocrites, men and women, and unto the
misbelievers, hell-fire, to dwell therein for aye; it is enough for
them! God shall curse them, and theirs shall be enduring woe.
Ye are like those who were before you. They were stronger than you
and more abundant in wealth and children; they enjoyed their portion
then, and ye enjoy your portion, as they enjoyed their portion
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: nervously agitated by a fixed idea, became hard to please, and
nagging, less by nature than from the need of employing her activity.
Having no husband or children to occupy her, she fell back on petty
details. She talked for hours about mere nothings, on a dozen napkins
marked "Z," placed in the closet before the "O's."
"What can Josette be thinking of?" she exclaimed. "Josette is
beginning to neglect things."
Mademoiselle inquired for eight days running whether Penelope had had
her oats at two o'clock, because on one occasion Jacquelin was a
trifle late. Her narrow imagination spent itself on trifles. A layer
of dust forgotten by the feather-duster, a slice of toast ill-made by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: that it is I who have committed this murder, I can think of seven
most plausible stories! Far more convincing than Mr. Inglethorp's
stony denials!"
I could not help laughing.
"My dear Poirot, I am sure you are capable of thinking of
seventy! But, seriously, in spite of what I heard you say to the
detectives, you surely cannot still believe in the possibility of
Alfred Inglethorp's innocence?"
"Why not now as much as before? Nothing has changed."
"But the evidence is so conclusive."
"Yes, too conclusive."
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
