The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 4 Hither let Pusan Pavamana come to us, Varuna, Mitra, bountiful,
of
one accord,
The Maruts, Asvins, Vayu, and Brhaspati, Savitar, Tvastar,
tractable
Sarasvati.
5 Both Heaven and Earth, the all-invigorating Pair, Vidhatar,
Aditi,
and Aryaman the God,
Bhaga who blesses men, the spacious Firmament,-let all the
Gods in
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and amounted to this: on the Sunday morning previous, at a
quarter before five, he had been called to the telephone. The
message was from a Mr. Jarvis, who asked him to come at once to
Sunnyside, as there had been an accident there, and Mr. Arnold
Armstrong had been shot. He had dressed hastily, gathered up
some instruments, and driven to Sunnyside.
He was met by Mr. Jarvis, who took him at once to the east wing.
There, just as he had fallen, was the body of Arnold Armstrong.
There was no need of the instruments: the man was dead. In
answer to the coroner's question--no, the body had not been
moved, save to turn it over. It lay at the foot of the circular
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: winding river, and the distant forests to the north and
west.
A mile or more ahead of them, the line of warriors was
creeping like a giant caterpillar through the tall
grasses of the plain. Beyond, grazing herds of zebra,
hartebeest, and topi dotted the level landscape, while
closer to the river a bull buffalo, his head and
shoulders protruding from the reeds watched the
advancing blacks for a moment, only to turn at last and
disappear into the safety of his dank and gloomy
retreat.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |