| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: those who wrong men and are wanton in the earth without right;
these- for them is grievous woe.
But surely he who is patient and forgives,-verily that is a
determined affair.
But whomsoever God leads astray he has no patron after Him; and thou
mayest see the unjust when they see the torment say, 'Is there no
way to avert this?' and thou mayest see them exposed to it, humbled
with abasement, looking with a stealthy glance. And those who
believe shall say, 'Verily, the losers are they who have lost
themselves and their families too upon the resurrection day!' Ay,
verily, the unjust are in lasting torment!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:
"Chang Ch'i, the poet," he answered. "Whenever he went for a walk
he took with him a child who carried a bag in which to put the
poems he happened to write. In this illustration he stands with
his head bent forward and his hands behind his back lost in
thought, while the lad stands near with the bag."
We have given in another chapter the story of the great
traveller, Chang Ch'ien, and his search for the source of the
Yellow River.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: notice.
Jonathas, a man of low stature, who spoke Greek, advanced with a firm
step and begged that the great lord would honour Jerusalem with a
visit. Vitellius replied that he should probably go to Jerusalem soon.
Eleazar, who had a crooked nose and a long beard, put forth a claim,
in behalf of the Pharisees, for the mantle of the high priest, held in
the tower of Antonia by the civil authorities.
Then the Galileans came forward and denounced Pontius Pilate. On one
occasion, they said, a mad-man went seeking in a cave near Samaria for
the golden vases that had belonged to King David, and Pontius Pilate
had caused several inhabitants of that region to be executed. In their
Herodias |
