| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: And so, after all, they come nearer the truth than the very good
people.
"The Self is free from qualities." That thing which is so
deep, which belongs to all, it either--as I have already said--
has ALL qualities, or it has none. You, to whom I am speaking
now, your qualities, good and bad, are all mine. I am perfectly
willing to accept them. They are all right enough and in
place--if one can only find the places for them. But I know
that in most cases they have got so confused and mixed up that
they cause great conflict and pain in the souls that harbor
them. If you attain to knowing yourself to be other than and
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: returned to the cabin. But he was out there somewhere among the pines, and
I did not think any of those ruffians was safe.
Then I heard stealthy footsteps approaching. Soon I saw the Mexican
slipping cautiously to the door. He peeped within. Probably the interior
was dark to him, as it had been to me. He was not a coward, for he stepped
inside.
At that instant there was a clinking sound, a rush and a roar, and a black
mass appeared to hurl itself upon the Mexican. He went down with a piercing
shriek. Then began a fearful commotion. Screams and roars mingled with the
noise of combat. I saw a whirling cloud of dust on the cabin floor. The cub
had jumped on the Mexican. What an unmerciful beating he was giving that
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: with her; also her second son, the Duke Percy Somerset, who died a
few months before, and had been buried in the Abbey church of
Westminster, but was ordered to be removed and laid here with the
ancestors of his house. And I hear his Grace designs to have a yet
more magnificent monument erected in this cathedral for them, just
by the other which is there already.
How the Dukes of Somerset came to quit this church for their
burying-place, and be laid in Westminster Abbey, that I know not;
but it is certain that the present Duke has chosen to have his
family laid here with their ancestors, and to that end has caused
the corpse of his son, the Lord Percy, as above, and one of his
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