| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: So she went out.
She laid her kerchief over me,
And took my bones that they might lie
and he threw down the shoes to her,
Underneath the juniper-tree
Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!'
And she now felt quite happy and lighthearted; she put on the shoes
and danced and jumped about in them. 'I was so miserable,' she said,
'when I came out, but that has all passed away; that is indeed a
splendid bird, and he has given me a pair of red shoes.'
The wife sprang up, with her hair standing out from her head like
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: man." What a profound bit of philosophy in three lines!
I doubt if anywhere the basis of all human life has been
expressed more perfectly and tersely.
One of the Upanishads (the Maitrayana-Brahmana) says:
"The happiness belonging to a mind, which through deep
inwardness[1] (or understanding) has been washed clean and has
entered into the Self, is a thing beyond the power of words to
describe: it can only be perceived by an inner faculty." Observe
the conviction, the intensity with which this joy, this happiness
is described, which comes to those whose minds have been washed
clean (from all the silly trumpery sediment of self-thought) and
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 16: 22 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'
1_Chronicles 16: 23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; proclaim His salvation from day to day.
1_Chronicles 16: 24 Declare His glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples.
1_Chronicles 16: 25 For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods.
1_Chronicles 16: 26 For all the gods of the peoples are things of nought; but the LORD made the heavens.
1_Chronicles 16: 27 Honour and majesty are before Him; strength and gladness are in His place.
1_Chronicles 16: 28 Ascribe unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe unto the LORD glory and strength.
1_Chronicles 16: 29 Ascribe unto the LORD the glory due unto His name; bring an offering, and come before Him; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
1_Chronicles 16: 30 Tremble before Him, all the earth; the world also is established that it cannot be moved.
1_Chronicles 16: 31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; and let them say among the nations: 'The LORD reigneth.'
1_Chronicles 16: 32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; let the field exult, and all that is therein;
The Tanach |
