| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: go thou and thy Lord and fight ye twain; verily, we will sit down
here.' Said he, 'My Lord, verily, I can control only myself and my
brother; therefore part us from these sinful people.' He said,
'Then, verily, it is forbidden them; for forty years shall they wander
about in the earth; so vex not thyself for the sinful people.'
Recite to them the story of the two sons of Adam; truly when they
offered an offering and it was accepted from one of them, and was
not accepted from the other, that one said, 'I will surely kill thee
he said, 'God only accepts from those who fear. If thou dost stretch
forth to me thine hand to kill me, I will not stretch forth mine
hand to kill thee; verily, I fear God the Lord of the worlds;
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Telephassa and Cadmus were now pursuing their weary way, with
no companion but each other. The queen leaned heavily upon her
son's arm, and could walk only a few miles a day. But for all
her weakness and weariness, she would not be persuaded to give
up the search. It was enough to bring tears into the eyes of
bearded men to hear the melancholy tone with which she inquired
of every stranger whether he could not tell her any news of the
lost child.
"Have you seen a little girl--no, no, I mean a young maiden of
full growth--passing by this way, mounted on a snow-white bull,
which gallops as swiftly as the wind?"
Tanglewood Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: are lying, you dirty scoundrel!"
For a moment, he looked at her steadily, with his bright eyes
upon her, as he had looked at the portrait before he destroyed it
with revolver bullets, and then he began to laugh: "Ah! yes, talk
about them, my dear! Should we be here now, if they were brave?"
Then getting excited, he exclaimed: "We are the masters! France
belongs to us!" She jumped off his knees with a bound, and threw
herself into her chair, while he rose, held out his glass over
the table, and repeated: "France and the French, the woods, the
fields, and the houses of France belong to us!"
The others, who were quite drunk, and who were suddenly seized by
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