| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall
not break their ranks:
JOE 2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in
his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
JOE 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the
wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the
windows like a thief.
JOE 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble:
the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining:
JOE 2:11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: not strongly condensed is only resolved by fire. Compounds of earth and
water are unaffected by water while the water occupies the interstices in
them, but begin to liquefy when fire enters into the interstices of the
water. They are of two kinds, some of them, like glass, having more earth,
others, like wax, having more water in them.
Having considered objects of sense, we now pass on to sensation. But we
cannot explain sensation without explaining the nature of flesh and of the
mortal soul; and as we cannot treat of both together, in order that we may
proceed at once to the sensations we must assume the existence of body and
soul.
What makes fire burn? The fineness of the sides, the sharpness of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: It is impossible to tell how Joe hated that party wherever it was,
and all the other people who were going to it, whoever they were.
And she hardly looked at him--no, hardly looked at him. And when
the chair was seen through the open door coming blundering into the
workshop, she actually clapped her hands and seemed glad to go.
But Joe gave her his arm--there was some comfort in that--and
handed her into it. To see her seat herself inside, with her
laughing eyes brighter than diamonds, and her hand--surely she had
the prettiest hand in the world--on the ledge of the open window,
and her little finger provokingly and pertly tilted up, as if it
wondered why Joe didn't squeeze or kiss it! To think how well one
Barnaby Rudge |
