| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: not to Him, had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof
as well, they would give it for a ransom; these shall have an evil
reckoning up! and their resort is hell,- an evil couch shall it be!
Is he who knows that naught but the truth is sent down upon thee
from thy Lord like him who is blind? Only those possessed of minds
will remember!
Those who fulfil God's covenant and break not the compact, and those
who attain what God has bidden to be attained, and dread their Lord
and fear the evil reckoning up; and those who are patient, craving
their Lord's face, and are steadfast in prayer, and expend in alms
of what we have bestowed upon them secretly and openly, and ward off
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Laughing loud and long, and embracing mothers and daughters.
Much they marvelled to see the wealth of the cidevant blacksmith,
All his domains and his herds, and his patriarchal demeanor;
Much they marvelled to hear his tales of the soil and the
climate,
And of the prairie; whose numberless herds were his who would
take them;
Each one thought in his heart, that he, too, would go and do
likewise.
Thus they ascended the steps, and, crossing the breezy veranda,
Entered the hall of the house, where already the supper of Basil
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: different kinds and tending to extremes. In general, those parents
have most reverence who most deserve it, for he that lives well
cannot be despised.
"Many other evils infest private life. Some are the slaves of
servants whom they have trusted with their affairs. Some are kept
in continual anxiety by the caprice of rich relations, whom they
cannot please and dare not offend. Some husbands are imperious and
some wives perverse, and, as it is always more easy to do evil than
good, though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many
happy, the folly or vice of one makes many miserable."
"If such be the general effect of marriage," said the Prince, "I
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