| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: LORD WINDERMERE. No, thanks, Cecil.
DUMBY. [With a sigh.] Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man!
It's as demoralising as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
CECIL GRAHAM. You'll play, of course, Tuppy?
LORD AUGUSTUS. [Pouring himself out a brandy and soda at table.]
Can't, dear boy. Promised Mrs. Erlynne never to play or drink
again.
CECIL GRAHAM. Now, my dear Tuppy, don't be led astray into the
paths of virtue. Reformed, you would be perfectly tedious. That
is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we
are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living
God.
HOS 1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be
gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come
up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
HOS 2:1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
HOS 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither
am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her
sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
HOS 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he
sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body;
for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are
really beneficial or hurtful: neither do their customers know, with the
exception of any trainer or physician who may happen to buy of them. In
like manner those who carry about the wares of knowledge, and make the
round of the cities, and sell or retail them to any customer who is in want
of them, praise them all alike; though I should not wonder, O my friend, if
many of them were really ignorant of their effect upon the soul; and their
customers equally ignorant, unless he who buys of them happens to be a
physician of the soul. If, therefore, you have understanding of what is
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