| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "We are very glad," Mrs. Westgate replied, "to have been able to make
him a little more--a little less--a little more comfortable."
"I think he stayed at your house," remarked the Duchess of Bayswater,
looking at Bessie Alden.
"A very short time," said Mrs. Westgate.
"Oh!" said the duchess; and she continued to look at Bessie,
who was engaged in conversation with her daughter.
"Do you like London?" Lady Pimlico had asked of Bessie,
after looking at her a good deal--at her face and her hands,
her dress and her hair.
"Very much indeed," said Bessie.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: especially when she meditated upon some of Felix's intimations.
It was not cheerful work, at the best, to keep giving small
hammer-taps to the coffin in which one had laid away, for burial,
the poor little unacknowledged offspring of one's own misbehaving heart;
and the occupation was not rendered more agreeable by the fact that
the ghost of one's stifled dream had been summoned from the shades
by the strange, bold words of a talkative young foreigner.
What had Felix meant by saying that Mr. Brand was not so keen?
To herself her sister's justly depressed suitor had shown no sign
of faltering. Charlotte trembled all over when she allowed herself
to believe for an instant now and then that, privately, Mr. Brand
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 2 Forth to the vat the brown drops flow for service, and purified
proceed directly forward.
May Indra drink of this, our guest aforetime, Celestial King
of the
strong draught of Soma.
3 Bringing us hitherward all-potent Indra on well-wheeled chariot,
may
the Steeds who bear him
Convey him on the road direct to glory, and ne'er may Vayu's
Amrta
cease and fail him.
The Rig Veda |
