| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: color, though," said he, "that a little more wind must have begun out
there."
The bell rang a last short summons to prayer. Along the road from the
south a young rider, leading a pack-animal, ambled into the mission and
dismounted. Church was not so much in his thoughts as food and, after due
digestion, a bed; but the doors stood open, and, as everybody was passing
within them, more variety was to be gained by joining this company than
by waiting outside alone until they should return from their devotions.
So he seated himself in a corner near the entrance, and after a brief,
jaunty glance at the sunburned, shaggy congregation, made himself as
comfortable as might be. He had not seen a face worth keeping his eyes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: a profitable investment for some of his money, when it will be out
of risk of loss. So every bit of brisk living, and above all when
it is healthful, is just so much gained upon the wholesale filcher,
death. We shall have the less in our pockets, the more in our
stomach, when he cries stand and deliver. A swift stream is a
favourite artifice of his, and one that brings him in a comfortable
thing per annum; but when he and I come to settle our accounts, I
shall whistle in his face for these hours upon the upper Oise.
Towards afternoon we got fairly drunken with the sunshine and the
exhilaration of the pace. We could no longer contain ourselves and
our content. The canoes were too small for us; we must be out and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: whomsoever Thou pleasest, and strippest the kingdom from whomsoever
Thou pleasest; Thou honourest whom Thou pleasest, and abasest whom
Thou pleasest; in Thy hand is good. Verily, Thou art mighty over
all. Thou dost turn night to day, and dost turn day to night, and dost
bring forth the living from the dead, and dost provide for whom Thou
pleasest without taking count.'
Those who believe shall not take misbelievers for their patrons,
rather than believers, and he who does this has no part with God at
all, unless, indeed, ye fear some danger from them. But God bids you
beware of Himself, for unto Him your journey is.
Say, 'If ye hide that which is in your breasts, or if ye show it,
The Koran |
