| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: And Gareth to him,
'Master no more! too well I know thee, ay--
The most ungentle knight in Arthur's hall.'
'Have at thee then,' said Kay: they shocked, and Kay
Fell shoulder-slipt, and Gareth cried again,
'Lead, and I follow,' and fast away she fled.
But after sod and shingle ceased to fly
Behind her, and the heart of her good horse
Was nigh to burst with violence of the beat,
Perforce she stayed, and overtaken spoke.
'What doest thou, scullion, in my fellowship?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Follow'd them all. But if thou know'st and canst,
Direct us, how we soonest may arrive,
Where Purgatory its true beginning takes."
He answer'd thus: "We have no certain place
Assign'd us: upwards I may go or round,
Far as I can, I join thee for thy guide.
But thou beholdest now how day declines:
And upwards to proceed by night, our power
Excels: therefore it may be well to choose
A place of pleasant sojourn. To the right
Some spirits sit apart retir'd. If thou
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: stay at home while they are rich; content to be with those who are
left behind; on whose hearts God has set a stamp, so that they
should not know.
They make excuses to you when ye return to them: say, 'Make no
excuse, we believe you not; God has informed us concerning you. God
sees your works and His Apostle too!' Then shall ye be brought back
unto Him who knows the unseen and the seen; and He shall inform you of
that which ye have done.
They will adjure you by God when ye have come back to them, to
turn aside from them; turn ye aside then from them; verily, they are a
plague, and their resort is hell! a recompense for that which they
The Koran |
