| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: intervals sufficiently far apart, must stay at home to have
it washed. It was my friend's principle to stay away as
often as he dared; for I fear he was no friend to learning.
But there was something that came home to him sharply, in
this fellow who had to give over study till his shirt was
washed, and the scores of others who had never an opportunity
at all. IF ONE OF THESE COULD TAKE HIS PLACE, he thought;
and the thought tore away a bandage from his eyes. He was
eaten by the shame of his discoveries, and despised himself
as an unworthy favourite and a creature of the back-stairs of
Fortune. He could no longer see without confusion one of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: They, Mighty Lords, are lofty Law
2 Full springs of fatness, Sovran Kings, Mitra. and Varuna,
the Twain,
Gods glorified among the Gods.
3 So help ye us to riches, great terrestrial and celestial
wealth:
Vast is your sway among the Gods.
4 Carefully tending Law with Law they have attained their vigorous
might.
The two Gods wax devoid of guile.
5 With rainy skies and streaming floods, Lords of the strength
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: A half-disdain
Perched on the pouted blossom of her lips:
And Walter nodded at me; '~He~ began,
The rest would follow, each in turn; and so
We forged a sevenfold story. Kind? what kind?
Chimeras, crotchets, Christmas solecisms,
Seven-headed monsters only made to kill
Time by the fire in winter.'
'Kill him now,
The tyrant! kill him in the summer too,'
Said Lilia; 'Why not now?' the maiden Aunt.
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