| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: God is forgiving and merciful.
As for the foremost in the race, the first of those who fled, and
the helpers, and those who followed them in their kindness, God is
well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him; He has
prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell
therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness.
And of those who are round about you of the Arabs of the desert,
some are hypocrites, and of the people of Medinah, some are stubborn
in hypocrisy; thou dost not know them- we know them; we will torment
them twice over; then shall they be sent off into mighty woe.
And others have confessed their sins,- that they have mixed with a
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: By bedtime--in their impatience to taste of a terrestrial couch again our
seafarers went to bed early--it was still insufferably hot, and the buzz
of the mosquitoes at the open windows might have passed for an audible
crepitation of the temperature. "We can't stand this, you know,"
the young Englishmen said to each other; and they tossed about all night
more boisterously than they had tossed upon the Atlantic billows.
On the morrow, their first thought was that they would re-embark that day
for England; and then it occured to them that they might find an asylum
nearer at hand. The cave of Aeolus became their ideal of comfort,
and they wondered where the Americans went when they wished to cool off.
They had not the least idea, and they determined to apply for information
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: went on, the feeding of the Under-world, however it was effected,
had become disjointed. Mother Necessity, who had been staved off
for a few thousand years, came back again, and she began below.
The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however
perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had
probably retained perforce rather more initiative, if less of
every other human character, than the Upper. And when other meat
failed them, they turned to what old habit had hitherto
forbidden. So I say I saw it in my last view of the world of
Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One. It may be
as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent. It is how
The Time Machine |
