| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: clusters, here and there; presenting sometimes the fantastic appearance of
old ruined castles or giant graves, the work of human hands.
Kraal - A sheepfold.
Krantz - A precipice.
Sluit - A deep fissure, generally dry, in which the superfluous torrents of
water are carried from the karoo plains after thunderstorms.
Stoep - A porch.
I. DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE; A LITTLE AFRICAN STORY.
Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her
stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and
here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods tied
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: warner with him.... Or there be thrown to him a treasury, or he have a
garden to eat therefrom....!' and the unjust say, 'Ye only follow an
infatuated man.'
See how they strike out for thee parables, and err, and cannot
find a way.
Blessed be He who, if He please, can make for thee better than that,
gardens beneath which rivers flow, and can make for thee castles!
Nay, but they call the Hour a lie; but we have prepared for those
who call the Hour a lie a blaze: when it seizes them from a far-off
place they shall hear its raging and roaring; and when they are thrown
into a narrow place thereof, fastened together, they shall call
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: quiet from fear of evil.
PRO 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments
with thee;
PRO 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine
heart to understanding;
PRO 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice
for understanding;
PRO 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid
treasures;
PRO 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the
knowledge of God.
King James Bible |
