| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: "My dearest papa! You do not think I could mean you, or suppose
Mr. Knightley to mean you. What a horrible idea! Oh no! I meant
only myself. Mr. Knightley loves to find fault with me, you know--
in a joke--it is all a joke. We always say what we like to one another."
Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see
faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them:
and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself,
she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would
not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being
thought perfect by every body.
"Emma knows I never flatter her," said Mr. Knightley, "but I
Emma |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: Also, amid many opinions held in equal repute, I chose always the most
moderate, as much for the reason that these are always the most convenient
for practice, and probably the best (for all excess is generally vicious),
as that, in the event of my falling into error, I might be at less
distance from the truth than if, having chosen one of the extremes, it
should turn out to be the other which I ought to have adopted. And I
placed in the class of extremes especially all promises by which somewhat
of our freedom is abridged; not that I disapproved of the laws which, to
provide against the instability of men of feeble resolution, when what is
sought to be accomplished is some good, permit engagements by vows and
contracts binding the parties to persevere in it, or even, for the
Reason Discourse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Song_of_songs 1: 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are as doves.
Song_of_songs 1: 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy.
Song_of_songs 1: 17 The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.
Song_of_songs 2: 1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
Song_of_songs 2: 2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Song_of_songs 2: 3 As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song_of_songs 2: 4 He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.
Song_of_songs 2: 5 'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'
Song_of_songs 2: 6 Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.
Song_of_songs 2: 7 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'
Song_of_songs 2: 8 Hark! my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
The Tanach |
