| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Exit.
Scene III.
The Duke of Albany's Palace.
Enter Goneril and [her] Steward [Oswald].
Gon. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?
Osw. Ay, madam.
Gon. By day and night, he wrongs me! Every hour
He flashes into one gross crime or other
That sets us all at odds. I'll not endure it.
His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Gods
have made centre of life eternal.
2 At birth of these two Gods all Gods are joyful: they have
caused
darkness, which we hate, to vanish.
With these, with Soma and with Pusan, India generates ripe
warm milk
in the raw milch-cows.
3 Soma and Pusan, urge your chariot hither, the seven-wheeIed
car that
measures out the region,
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: Not at all," he said aloud, "for you who--"
"Will you take a glass of wine?" asked Margaritis.
"With pleasure," replied Gaudissart.
"Wife, give us a bottle of the wine that is in the puncheons. You are
here at the very head of Vouvray," he continued, with a gesture of the
hand, "the vineyard of Margaritis."
The maid-servant brought glasses and a bottle of wine of the vintage
of 1819. The good-man filled a glass with circumspection and offered
it to Gaudissart, who drank it up.
"Ah, you are joking, Monsieur!" exclaimed the commercial traveller.
"Surely this is Madeira, true Madeira?"
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