| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: "He will sprout very soon," said the Prince, "and grow into a large bush,
from which we shall in time be able to pick several very good sorcerers."
"Do all your people grow on bushes?" asked the boy.
"Certainly," was the reply. "Do not all people grow upon bushes where
you came from, on the outside of the earth?"
"Not that I ever hear of."
"How strange! But if you will come with me to one of our folk gardens
I will show you the way we grow in the Land of the Mangaboos."
It appeared that these odd people, while they were able to walk
through the air with ease, usually moved upon the ground in the
ordinary way. There were no stairs in their houses, because they did
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: some hours afterwards along the same road--in the evening
and after the cessation of traffic--you have looked again, and
lo! each pool has cleared itself to a perfect calm, and has
become a lovely mirror reflecting the trees and the clouds and
the sunset and the stars.
So this mirror of the mind. Leave it alone. Let the ugly
sediment of tiresome thoughts and anxieties, and of fussing
over one's self-importances and duties, settle down--and
presently you will look on it, and see something there which you
never knew or imagined before--something more beautiful
than you ever yet beheld--a reflection of the real and eternal
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: oar. Howbeit let the stranger, for all his craving to
return, nevertheless endure to abide until the morrow, till
I make up the full measure of the gift; and men shall care
for his convoy, all men, but I in chief, for mine is the
lordship in the land.'
And Odysseus of many counsels answered him, saying: My lord
Alcinous, most notable of all the people, if ye bade me
tarry here even for a year, and would speed my convoy and
give me splendid gifts, even that I would choose; and
better would it be for me to come with a fuller hand to
mine own dear country, so should I get more love and
The Odyssey |
