| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: 11 Plain Speaking
The longer I lived at Birtwick the more proud and happy I felt
at having such a place. Our master and mistress were respected and beloved
by all who knew them; they were good and kind to everybody and everything;
not only men and women, but horses and donkeys, dogs and cats,
cattle and birds; there was no oppressed or ill-used creature
that had not a friend in them, and their servants took the same tone.
If any of the village children were known to treat any creature cruelly
they soon heard about it from the Hall.
The squire and Farmer Grey had worked together, as they said,
for more than twenty years to get check-reins on the cart-horses
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: persistent observer of human chemistry possessed that antique
science of the Mages, that is to say, knowledge of the elements
in fusion, the causes of life, life antecedent to life, and what
it must be in its incubation or ever it IS, it must be confessed
that, unfortunately, everything in him was purely personal.
Isolated during his life by his egoism, that egoism is now
suicidal of his glory. On his tomb there is no proclaiming statue
to repeat to posterity the mysteries which genius seeks out at
its own cost.
But perhaps Desplein's genius was answerable for his beliefs, and
for that reason mortal. To him the terrestrial atmosphere was a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: and bitter!
Verily, the sinners are in error and excitement. On the day when
they shall be dragged to the fire upon their faces!-'Taste ye the
touch of hell.'
Verily, everything have we created by decree, and our bidding is but
one (word), like the twinkling of an eye!
We have destroyed the like of you-but is there any who will mind?
And everything they do is in the books, and everything small and
great is written down.
Verily, the pious shall be amid gardens and rivers, in the seat of
truth, with the powerful king.
The Koran |
