| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: were patient of being called liars and of being hurt until our help
came to them; for there is none to change the words of God- now has
there come to thee the story of those He sent.
And if their turning from thee be hard for thee, and if thou canst
seek for a shaft down into the earth, or a ladder up into the sky,
to bring them a sign- but if God pleased He would bring them all to
guidance, be thou not then of the ignorant.
He only answers the prayer of those who listen; but the dead will
God raise up, then unto Him shall they return. They say, 'Unless there
be sent down some sign from his Lord'- say, 'Verily, God is able to
send down a sign, but most of them do not know.'
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "The Law doesn't except shipwrecks," replied
the Royal Gardener, and he was about to say
more when suddenly there was a crash of glass
and a man came tumbling through the roof of
the greenhouse and fell plump to the ground.
Chapter Six
Shaggy Seeks his Stray Brother
This sudden arrival was a queer looking man,
dressed all in garments so shaggy that Betsy at
first thought he must he some animal. But the
stranger ended his fall in a sitting position and
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: race, class, and nation who are struggling after the readjustment of woman
to life.
This it is also, which in spite of defects and failures on the part of
individuals, yet makes the body who these women compose, as a whole, one of
the most impressive and irresistible of modern forces. The private soldier
of the great victorious army is not always an imposing object as he walks
down the village street, cap on side of head and sword dangling between his
legs, nor is he always impressive even when he burnishes up his
accoutrements or cleans his pannikins; but it is of individuals such as
these that the great army is made, which tomorrow, when it is gathered
together, may shake the world with its tread.
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