| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: hears and knows. And let not those amongst you who have plenty and
ample means swear that they will not give aught to their kinsman and
the poor and those who have fled their homes in God's way, but let
them pardon and pass it over. Do ye not like God to forgive you? and
God is forgiving, compassionate.
Verily, those who cast imputations on chaste women who are negligent
but believing shall be cursed in this world and the next; and for them
is mighty woe. The day when their tongues and hands and feet shall
bear witness against them of what they did, on that day God will pay
them their just due; and they shall know that God, He is the plain
truth.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: - 'There,' I said, 'we have been giving you a chapter of
Scott, but this goes beyond the Waverley Novels.' After
dinner, kava. Lady J. was served before me, and the King
DRANK LAST; it was the least formal kava I ever saw in that
house, - no names called, no show of ceremony. All my ladies
are well trained, and when Belle drained her bowl, the King
was pleased to clap his hands. Then he and I must retire for
our private interview, to another house. He gave me his own
staff and made me pass before him; and in the interview,
which was long and delicate, he twice called me AFIOGA. Ah,
that leaves you cold, but I am Samoan enough to have been
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: any subject against the most subtle and skillful, without its being
possible for any one to convict them of error. In this they seem to me to
be like a blind man, who, in order to fight on equal terms with a person
that sees, should have made him descend to the bottom of an intensely dark
cave: and I may say that such persons have an interest in my refraining
from publishing the principles of the philosophy of which I make use; for,
since these are of a kind the simplest and most evident, I should, by
publishing them, do much the same as if I were to throw open the windows,
and allow the light of day to enter the cave into which the combatants had
descended. But even superior men have no reason for any great anxiety to
know these principles, for if what they desire is to be able to speak of
Reason Discourse |
