| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: gushed from her eyes, now brilliant with fever, anxiety, and
impatience. "He does not come," she moaned, looking round the room
prepared for her son. "Here alone I can breathe, I can live! A few
minutes more and he MUST be here; for I know he is living. I am
certain of it, my heart says so. Don't you hear something, Brigitte? I
would give the rest of my life to know at this moment whether he were
still in prison, or out in the free country. Oh! I wish I could stop
thinking--"
She again examined the room to see if all were in order. A good fire
burned on the hearth, the shutters were carefully closed, the
furniture shone with rubbing; even the manner in which the bed was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: such agreeable circumstances.
The fresh horses, therefore, had only the brief task of conveying
the General's travelling carriage to Woodville Castle. A porter
admitted them at a modern Gothic lodge, built in that style to
correspond with the castle itself, and at the same time rang a
bell to give warning of the approach of visitors. Apparently the
sound of the bell had suspended the separation of the company,
bent on the various amusements of the morning; for, on entering
the court of the chateau, several young men were lounging about
in their sporting dresses, looking at and criticizing the dogs
which the keepers held in readiness to attend their pastime. As
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 1. Ask ye of him for he is come, he knoweth it; he, full of
wisdom, is
implored, is now implored.
With him are admonitions and with him commands: he is the Lord
of
Strength, the Lord of Power and Might.
2 They ask of him: not all learn by their questioning what
he, the
Sage, hath grasped, as 'twere, with his own mind.
Forgetting not the former nor the later word, he goeth on,
not
The Rig Veda |
