| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: rebuked him, and spake and hailed him:
'Wretched stranger, thou hast no wit, nay never so little.
Art thou not content to feast at ease in our high company,
and to lack not thy share of the banquet, but to listen to
our speech and our discourse, while no guest and beggar
beside thee hears our speech? Wine it is that wounds thee,
honey sweet wine, that is the bane of others too, even of
all who take great draughts and drink out of measure. Wine
it was that darkened the mind even of the Centaur, renowned
Eurytion, in the hall of high-hearted Peirithous, when he
went to the Lapithae; and after that his heart was darkened
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Strong in the glory of our noble offspring, subdue the godless
when
they seek the battle.
17 Ensign of Gods hast thou become, O Agni, joy-giver, knower
of all
secret wisdom.
Friend of the homestead, thou hast lightened mortals: carborne
thou
goest to the Gods, fulfilling.
18 Within the house hath sate the King immortal of mortals,
filling
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: did not see the trap she set for me. Lady Dudley herself proposed the
humblest concessions. She would stay near Tours, at a little country-
place, alone, disguised; she would refrain from going out in the day-
time, and only meet me in the evening when people were not likely to
be about. I left Tours on horseback. I had my reasons for this; my
evening excursions to meet her would require a horse, and mine was an
Arab which Lady Hester Stanhope had sent to the marchioness, and which
she had lately exchanged with me for that famous picture of Rembrandt
which I obtained in so singular a way, and which now hangs in her
drawing-room in London. I took the road I had traversed on foot six
years earlier and stopped beneath my walnut-tree. From there I saw
The Lily of the Valley |
