| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: God guides not a people who do wrong.
The building which they have built will not cease to be a source
of doubt in their hearts until their hearts are cut asunder; but God
is knowing, wise.
Verily, God hath bought of the believers their persons and their
wealth, for the paradise they are to have; they shall fight in the way
of God, and they shall slay and be slain: promised in truth, in the
law and the gospel and the Koran;- and who is more faithful to His
covenant than God?
Be ye glad then in the covenant which ye have made with Him, for
that is the mighty happiness! Those who repent, those who worship,
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: they was pretty poor inventions, but they done well
enough, Jim didn't see through them. At last when
we got done we was 'most dead, but not with work
but with laughing. By and by Jim was 'most dead,
too, but: it was with work; then we took turns and
spelled him, and he was as thankfull as he could be,
and would set on the gunnel and swab the sweat, and
heave and pant, and say how good we was to a poor
old nigger, and he wouldn't ever forgit us. He was
always the gratefulest nigger I ever see, for any little
thing you done for him. He was only nigger outside;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: door of the long room. "We have no time to lose. I want to divide one keg of
that powder among the men."
Clarke appeared at the moment. He was breathing heavily as though he had run
up the stairs, or was laboring under a powerful emotion. His face was gray.
"I could not find any powder!" he exclaimed. "I searched every nook and corner
in Capt. Boggs' house. There is no powder there."
A brief silence ensued. Everyone in the block-house heard the young man's
voice. No one moved. They all seemed waiting for someone to speak. Finally
Silas Zane burst out:
"Not find it? You surely could not have looked well. Capt. Boggs himself told
me there were three kegs of powder in the storeroom. I will go and find it
Betty Zane |
