| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: wasn't at all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as
well as she could: and it was VERY dry; and she thought she had
never been so nearly choked in all her life.
`While you're refreshing yourself,' said the Queen, `I'll just
take the measurements.' And she took a ribbon out of her pocket,
marked in inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking
little pegs in here and there.
`At the end of two yards,' she said, putting in a peg to mark
the distance, `I shall give you your directions--have another
biscuit?'
`No, thank you,' said Alice,: `one's QUITE enough!'
Through the Looking-Glass |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: This, par parenthese, will be thought cool language by persons who
entertain solemn doctrines about the angelic nature of children, and
the duty of those charged with their education to conceive for them
an idolatrous devotion: but I am not writing to flatter parental
egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the
truth. I felt a conscientious solicitude for Adele's welfare and
progress, and a quiet liking for her little self: just as I
cherished towards Mrs. Fairfax a thankfulness for her kindness, and
a pleasure in her society proportionate to the tranquil regard she
had for me, and the moderation of her mind and character.
Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and
Jane Eyre |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda:
1. THE friends who offer Soma long to find thee: they pour
forth Soma
and present their viands.
They bear unmoved the cursing of the people, for all our wisdom
comes
from thee, O Indra.
2 Not far for thee are mid-air's loftiest regions: start hither,
Lord
of Bays, with thy Bay Horses.
Made for the Firm and Strong are these libations. The pressing-stones
The Rig Veda |
