| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: called unto Islam? but God guides not the unjust people.
They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths; but God
will perfect His light, averse although the misbeliever be!
He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of
truth to set it above all religion; averse although the idolaters
may be.
O ye who believe! shall I lead you to a merchandise which will
save you from grievous woe?
To believe in God and His Apostle, and to fight strenuously in God's
cause with your property and your persons; that is better for you if
ye did but know!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: were trained under a good government, and for this reason they were good,
and our contemporaries are also good, among whom our departed friends are
to be reckoned. Then as now, and indeed always, from that time to this,
speaking generally, our government was an aristocracy--a form of government
which receives various names, according to the fancies of men, and is
sometimes called democracy, but is really an aristocracy or government of
the best which has the approval of the many. For kings we have always had,
first hereditary and then elected, and authority is mostly in the hands of
the people, who dispense offices and power to those who appear to be most
deserving of them. Neither is a man rejected from weakness or poverty or
obscurity of origin, nor honoured by reason of the opposite, as in other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: hedge had several gaps in it, where the wild goats had got in and
eaten up the corn; perhaps here and there a dead bush was crammed
in, to stop them out for the present, but it was only shutting the
stable-door after the steed was stolen. Whereas, when they looked
on the colony of the other two, there was the very face of industry
and success upon all they did; there was not a weed to be seen in
all their corn, or a gap in any of their hedges; and they, on the
other hand, verified Solomon's words in another place, "that the
diligent hand maketh rich"; for everything grew and thrived, and
they had plenty within and without; they had more tame cattle than
the others, more utensils and necessaries within doors, and yet
Robinson Crusoe |
