| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to
white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their
more secure position in life stirred his envy. By contrast with
his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and
looked after in sickness and old age. They were proud of the good
names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to
people who were quality, while he was despised by all.
Tom Slattery could have sold his farm for three times its value to
any of the planters in the County. They would have considered it
money well spent to rid the community of an eyesore, but he was
well satisfied to remain and to subsist miserably on the proceeds
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Behold her top'd?
Oth. Death, and damnation. Oh!
Iago. It were a tedious difficulty, I thinke,
To bring them to that Prospect: Damne them then,
If euer mortall eyes do see them boulster
More then their owne. What then? How then?
What shall I say? Where's Satisfaction?
It is impossible you should see this,
Were they as prime as Goates, as hot as Monkeyes,
As salt as Wolues in pride, and Fooles as grosse
As Ignorance, made drunke. But yet, I say,
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: pleasure which springs from concious obedience to God.
CXXXIV
To a good man there is no evil, either in life or death. And
if God supply not food, has He not, as a wise Commander, sounded
the signal for retreat and nothing more? I obey, I follow--
speaking good of my Commander, and praising His acts. For at His
good pleasure I came; and I depart when it pleases Him; and while
I was yet alive that was my work, to sing praises unto God!
CXXXV
Reflect that the chief source of all evils to Man, and of
baseness and cowardice, is not death, but the fear of death.
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus |
