| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: up. Said he, 'O my people! follow the apostles; follow those who do
not ask you a hire, and who are guided. What ails me that I should not
worship Him who originated me, and unto whom I must return? Shall I
take gods beside Him? If the Merciful One desires harm for me, their
intercession cannot avail me at all, nor can they rescue me. Verily, I
should then be in obvious error; verily, I believe in your Lord,
then listen ye to me!'
It was said, 'Enter thou into Paradise!' said he, 'O, would that
my people did but know! for that my Lord has forgiven me, and has made
me of the honoured.'
And we did send down upon his people no hosts from heaven, nor yet
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: cousinage est un dangereux voisinage.* Don't you think so?"
*"Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood."
"Oh, undoubtedly!" said Prince Andrew, and with sudden and unnatural
liveliness he began chaffing Pierre about the need to be very
careful with his fifty-year-old Moscow cousins, and in the midst of
these jesting remarks he rose, taking Pierre by the arm, and drew
him aside.
"Well?" asked Pierre, seeing his friend's strange animation with
surprise, and noticing the glance he turned on Natasha as he rose.
"I must... I must have a talk with you," said Prince Andrew. "You
know that pair of women's gloves?" (He referred to the Masonic
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: unsightly thing, sending out pale unhealthy shoots in the
dark, unwholesome cellars of our inner consciences.
Norah's knowing was the cleanest, sweetest thing about
it."
"How wonderfully you understand her, and how right
you are! Her knowing seems to make it as it should be,
doesn't it? I am braver already, for the knowledge of
it. It shall make no difference between us?"
"There is no difference, Dawn," said he.
"No. It is only in the story-books that they sigh,
and groan and utter silly nonsense. We are not like
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