| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away.
FIRST LORD.
There's honour in the theft.
PAROLLES.
Commit it, count.
SECOND LORD.
I am your accessary; and so farewell.
BERTRAM.
I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.
FIRST LORD.
Farewell, captain.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: among the great country houses in Gaul, he knew the
proper words to address to all - from Roman-born
Centurions to those dogs of the Third - the Libyans.
And he spoke to each as though that man were as
high-minded as himself. Now I saw so strongly what
things were needed to be done, that I forgot things
are only accomplished by means of men. That was a mistake.
'I feared nothing from the Picts, at least for that year,
but Allo warned me that the Winged Hats would soon
come in from the sea at each end of the Wall to prove to
the Picts how weak we were. So I made ready in haste,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: no god but He, how then can ye lie? Thus did those lie who gainsaid
the signs of God.
God it is who has made for you the earth as a resting-place, and a
heaven as building, and has formed you and made excellent your
forms; and has provided you with good things! there is God for
you!-your Lord! then blessed be God, the Lord of the worlds!
He is the living One, there is no god but He! then call on Him,
being sincere in your religion to Him; praise be to God, the Lord of
the worlds!
Say, 'Verily, I am forbidden to serve those whom ye call on beside
God, since there have come to me manifest signs from my Lord, and I am
The Koran |
