| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Be thou steadfast in prayer from the declining of the sun until
the dusk of the night, and the reading of the dawn; verily, the
reading of the dawn is ever testified to.
And for the night, watch thou therein as an extra service. It may be
that thy Lord will raise thee to a laudable station.
And say, 'O my Lord! make me enter with a just entry; and make me
come forth with a just coming forth; and grant me from Thee
authority to aid.'
And say, 'Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished! verily,
falsehood is transient.'
And we will send down of the Koran that which is a healing and a
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: saw him all in a glow of high fashion, of good looks,
of expensive habits, of charming ways with women.
He had for his own town residence a big house filled
with the spoils of travel and the trophies of the chase;
but it was to his country home, an old family place in Essex,
that he wished her immediately to proceed.
He had been left, by the death of their parents in India,
guardian to a small nephew and a small niece, children of a younger,
a military brother, whom he had lost two years before.
These children were, by the strangest of chances for a man
in his position--a lone man without the right sort of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: in and found the pastor in his study.
"Jus' minute--getting 'phone call," said Dr. Drew in businesslike tones, then,
aggressively, to the telephone: "'Lo--'lo! This Berkey and Hannis? Reverend
Drew speaking. Where the dickens is the proof for next Sunday's calendar?
Huh? Y' ought to have it here. Well, I can't help it if they're ALL sick! I
got to have it to-night. Get an A.D.T. boy and shoot it up here quick."
He turned, without slackening his briskness. "Well, Brother Babbitt, what c'n
I do for you?"
"I just wanted to ask--Tell you how it is, dominie: Here a while ago I guess
I got kind of slack. Took a few drinks and so on. What I wanted to ask is:
How is it if a fellow cuts that all out and comes back to his senses? Does it
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