| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have
come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand
the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also
come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce
urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of
cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now
is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of
segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time
to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is
the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial
injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: then shall ye be sent back to Him who knows the unseen and the
visible, and He will inform you of that which ye have done!'
O ye who believe! when the call to prayer is made upon the
Congregation Day, then hasten to the remembrance of God, and leave off
traffic; that is better for you, if ye did but know!
And when prayer is performed, then disperse abroad in the land,
and crave of God's grace; and remember God much; haply ye may prosper!
But when they see merchandise or sport they flock to it and leave
thee standing! Say, 'What is with God is better than sport and than
merchandise, for God is the best of providers!'
THE CHAPTER OF THE HYPOCRITES
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: It is the greatest and best preserved walled city in the empire,
if not in the world. The Tartar City is sixteen miles in
circumference, surrounded by a wall sixty feet thick at the
bottom, fifty feet thick at the top and forty feet high, with six
feet of balustrade on the outside, beautifully crenelated and
loopholed, and in a good state of preservation. The streets are
sixty feet wide,--or even more in places,--well macadamized, and
lit with electric light. The chief mode of conveyance is the
'ricksha, though carriages may be hired by the week, day or hour
at various livery stables in proximity to the hotels, which, by
the way, furnish as good accommodation to their guests as the
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