| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: of good
thought, discerned the doors of riches.
Sarama found the cattle's firm-built prison whereby the race
of man is
still supported.
9 They who approached all noble operations making a path that
leads to
life immortal,
To be the Bird's support, the spacious mother, Aditi, and her
great
Sons stood in power.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: painful thought. I listened to Mademoiselle de Villenoix, who told me
every detail of this life--that of a child in arms.
Suddenly Louis ceased rubbing his legs together, and said slowly:
"The angels are white."
I cannot express the effect produced upon me by this utterance, by the
sound of the voice I had loved, whose accents, so painfully expected,
had seemed to be lost for ever. My eyes filled with tears in spite of
every effort. An involuntary instinct warned me, making me doubt
whether Louis had really lost his reason. I was indeed well assured
that he neither saw nor heard me; but the sweetness of his tone, which
seemed to reveal heavenly happiness, gave his speech an amazing
Louis Lambert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: real comfort in any eyes; when if a man is ready with soothing
flatteries, it is because he has an interested motive.
Rastignac made up his mind that he must learn the whole of
Goriot's previous history; he would come to his bearings before
attempting to board the Maison de Nucingen. The results of his
inquiries may be given briefly as follows:--
In the days before the Revolution, Jean-Joachim Goriot was simply
a workman in the employ of a vermicelli maker. He was a skilful,
thrifty workman, sufficiently enterprising to buy his master's
business when the latter fell a chance victim to the disturbances
of 1789. Goriot established himself in the Rue de la Jussienne,
Father Goriot |
