| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
ECC 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the
bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou
knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
ECC 11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not
thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or
that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
ECC 11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the
eyes to behold the sun:
ECC 11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let
him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: consciousness has played, psychologically, in the evolution
of religion, runs like a thread through the following chapters,
and seeks illustration in a variety of details. The idea
has been repeated under different aspects; sometimes,
possibly, it has been repeated too often; but different aspects
in such a case do help, as in a stereoscope, to give
solidity to the thing seen. Though the worship of Sun-gods
and divine figures in the sky came comparatively late
in religious evolution, 1 have put this subject early in
the book (chapters ii and iii), partly because (as I have
already explained) it was the phase first studied in modern
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "You're twenty-five, you know," she said, toward the end of a
discussion. "By thirty you'll be too set in your habits, too hard
to please."
"I'm not going to marry for the sake of getting married, mother."
"Of course not. But you have a good bit of money. You'll have
much more when I'm gone. And money carries responsibility with it."
He glanced at her, looked away, rapped a fork on the table cloth.
"It takes two to make a marriage, mother."
He closed up after that, but she had learned what she wanted.
At three o'clock that afternoon the Sayre limousine stopped in front
of Nina's house, and Mrs. Sayre, in brilliant pink and a purple hat,
The Breaking Point |
