| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: losses at the Imperial Club amounted monthly to an alarming number
of pounds, while taking one year with another, his mistresses would
be always devouring now a farm, now some acres of arable land or
forest, which amounted, in fact, to quite a respectable slice of his
vast estates in Picardy.
"I advise you to call other people skeptics! Why, you don't believe
a thing yourself," said Leonide, making shift to find him a little
space in which to sit down at her side.
"It's you who spoil your own pleasures."
"Exactly," he replied. "I wish to make others benefit by my
experience."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: he had done in the world: he found satisfaction in attaining the
greatest possible perfection outwardly as well as inwardly. As
in the regiment he had been not merely an irreproachable officer
but had even exceeded his duties and widened the borders of
perfection, so also as a monk he tried to be perfect, and was
always industrious, abstemious, submissive, and meek, as well as
pure both in deed and in thought, and obedient. This last
quality in particular made life far easier for him. If many of
the demands of life in the monastery, which was near the capital
and much frequented, did not please him and were temptations to
him, they were all nullified by obedience: 'It is not for me to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: (XXVI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
TA SIN MIM. Those are the signs of the perspicuous Book; haply
thou art vexing thyself to death that they will not be believers!
If we please we will send down upon them from the heaven a sign, and
their necks shall be humbled thereto. But there comes not to them
any recent Reminder from the Merciful One that they do not turn away
from. They have called (thee) liar! but there shall come to them a
message of that at which they mocked.
Have they not looked to the earth, how we caused to grow therein
of every noble kind? verily, in that is a sign; but most of them
The Koran |
