| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: freedom behind the eastern horizon. I am not excited by the
prospect of a walk thither; but I believe that the forest which I
see in the western horizon stretches uninterruptedly toward the
setting sun, and there are no towns nor cities in it of enough
consequence to disturb me. Let me live where I will, on this side
is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the
city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness. I should
not lay so much stress on this fact, if I did not believe that
something like this is the prevailing tendency of my countrymen.
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way
the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: the sign of God's knowledge of what has been, shall pass away,
and leave your forehead as pure as the heart we know.
For so surely as we live, that scar shall pass away when God
sees right to lift the burden that is hard upon us. Till then
we bear our Cross, as His Son did in obedience to His Will.
It may be that we are chosen instruments of His good pleasure,
and that we ascend to His bidding as that other through stripes
and shame. Through tears and blood. Through doubts and fear,
and all that makes the difference between God and man."
There was hope in his words, and comfort. And they made for resignation.
Mina and I both felt so, and simultaneously we each took one of the old
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: dead. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that
conceals our helplessness.
SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation
of symbols.
They say 'tis conscience feels compunction;
I hold that that's the stomach's function,
For of the sinner I have noted
That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated,
Or ill some other ghastly fashion
Within that bowel of compassion.
True, I believe the only sinner
The Devil's Dictionary |
