| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: to the folk that we inspired a man from amongst themselves, 'Warn thou
the folk; and give glad tidings to those who believe, that for them
there is an advance of sincerity gone before them with their Lord?'
The misbelievers say, 'Verily, this is an obvious sorcerer!'
Verily, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in
six days; then He made for the throne, to govern the affair; there
is no intercessor, except after His permission. That is God for you-
your Lord! Then worship Him- do ye not mind?
To Him is your return all of you- God's promise in truth; verily, He
produces the creature, then He makes it return again, that He may
recompense those who believe and do what is right with justice; but
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Into vibrations such, as those whereby
This sum of things is carried on to-day
By fixed renewal. But knew I never what
The seeds primordial were, yet would I dare
This to affirm, even from deep judgments based
Upon the ways and conduct of the skies-
This to maintain by many a fact besides-
That in no wise the nature of all things
For us was fashioned by a power divine-
So great the faults it stands encumbered with.
First, mark all regions which are overarched
Of The Nature of Things |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: The trail, after we left the horses, was as plain as a
strip of Brussels carpet, but somehow or another
that tenderfoot managed to get off it. I hunted him
up. We gained the top, watched the sunset, and
started down. The tenderfoot, I thought, was fairly
at my coat-tails, but when I turned to speak to him
he had gone; he must have turned off at one of the
numerous little openings in the brush. I sat down
to wait. By and by, away down the west slope of
the mountain, I heard a shot, and a faint, a very faint,
despairing yell. I, also, shot and yelled. After various
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