| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: the twinkling village lights.
Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their
wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Brother's back a mile
and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had
not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass
listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the
jungle. If Shere Khan had made a false step with his lame paw up
in the jungles by the Waingunga, Mowgli would have heard him in
those long, still mornings.
At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the
signal place, and he laughed and headed the buffaloes for the
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: looks fastened on them with an expression of enthusiastic
interest and admiration, which had wrapt her for the moment
beyond the fear of discovery. The noble form and fine features
of Ravenswood, fired with the pride of birth and sense of
internal dignity, the mellow and expressive tones of his voice,
the desolate state of his fortunes, and the indifference with
which he seemed to endure and to dare the worst that might
befall, rendered him a dangerous object of contemplation for a
maiden already too much disposed to dwell upon recollections
connected with him. When their eyes encountered each other, both
blushed deeply, conscious of some strong internal emotion, an
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: In what way?
Just as in a picture things appear to be all one to a person standing at a
distance, and to be in the same state and alike?
True.
But when you approach them, they appear to be many and different; and
because of the appearance of the difference, different in kind from, and
unlike, themselves?
True.
And so must the particles appear to be like and unlike themselves and each
other.
Certainly.
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