| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Who gives the wives we seek, whose succour fails not, to hasten,
like
a pitcher to the fountain.
17 Be thou our guardian, show thyself our kinsman, watching
and
blessing those who pour the Soma;
As Friend, as Sire, most fatherly of fathers giving the suppliant
vital strength and freedom.
18 Be helping Friend of those who seek thy friendship . give
life,
when lauded, Indra, to the singer.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: the vicar that the gallery had long had; it dazzled him. Lastly, about
three years before the Abbe Chapeloud's death, he completed the
comfort of his apartment by decorating the salon. Though the furniture
was plainly covered in red Utrecht velvet, it fascinated Birotteau.
From the day when the canon's friend first laid eyes on the red damask
curtains, the mahogany furniture, the Aubusson carpet which adorned
the vast room, then lately painted, his envy of Chapeloud's apartment
became a monomania hidden within his breast. To live there, to sleep
in that bed with the silk curtains where the canon slept, to have all
Chapeloud's comforts about him, would be, Birotteau felt, complete
happiness; he saw nothing beyond it. All the envy, all the ambition
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: she treated him, as it were, respectfully, using all a woman's, all a
mother's tact to arouse the spirit of high endeavor in the boy, to
teach him to think of himself as capable of great things. She did this
with a secret purpose, which Louis was to understand in the future;
nay, he understood it already.
Always, the lesson over, she went as far as the gate with the master,
and asked strict account of Louis' progress. So kindly and so winning
was her manner, that his tutors told her the truth, pointing out where
Louis was weak, so that she might help him in his lessons. Then came
dinner, and play after dinner, then a walk, and lessons were learned
till bedtime.
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