| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: thy guard! But cease not to make supplications on my behalf,
that I may not fall away from my hope, but may soon be able to
reach thee, and in peace profound may enjoy thy ministration."
Barlaam answered, "Nought forbiddeth thee to receive the seal of
Christ. Make thee ready now; and, the Lord working with thee,
thou shalt be perfected. But as concerning the money that thou
didst promise to bestow on my companions, how shall this be, that
thou, a poor man, shouldest give alms to the rich? The rich
always help the poor, not the needy the wealthy. And the least
of all my comrades is incomparably richer than thou. But I trust
in the mercies of God that thou too shalt soon be passing rich as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: Reale was touched. She never forgave. This woman believed in the power
of her hatred; she made an evil fate of it and bade it hover above her
enemy. This fatal power she employed against the man who had jilted
her. Events which seemed to prove the influence of her "jettatura"--
the casting of an evil eye--confirmed her superstitious faith in
herself. Though a minister and peer of France, this man began to ruin
himself, and soon came to total ruin. His property, his personal and
public honor were doomed to perish. At this crisis Madame Evangelista
in her brilliant equipage passed her faithless lover walking on foot
in the Champes Elysees, and crushed him with a look which flamed with
triumph. This misadventure, which occupied her mind for two years, was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: In your supposing once more put your sight
Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark:
Where what is done in action, more, if might,
Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark.
[Exit.]
SCENE I. On board Pericles' ship, off Mytilene. A close pavilion
on deck, with a curtain before it; Pericles within it, reclined
on a couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel.
[Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other
to the barge; to them Helicanus.]
TYRIAN SAILOR.
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