| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Gods in
Pavamana take delight.
HYMN LXXXII. Soma Pavamana.
1. EVEN as a King hath Soma, red and tawny Bull, been pressed:
the
Wondrous One hath bellowed to the kine.
While purified he passes through the filtering fleece to seat
him
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: are not listening to me."
"Yes, indeed, Monsieur Joseph. What do you think of painting? That is
a fine calling."
"Yes. I know a master house-painter, Monsieur Lourdois. He is well-to-
do."
Thus conversing, the family reached the Church of Saint-Leu. There
Madame Guillaume reasserted her rights, and, for the first time,
placed Augustine next herself, Virginie taking her place on the fourth
chair, next to Lebas. During the sermon all went well between
Augustine and Theodore, who, standing behind a pillar, worshiped his
Madonna with fervent devotion; but at the elevation of the Host,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: "Hey! vive Dieu! sire, she daggered him finely!"
The Comte d'Herouville, one of the most rabid royalists in Normandy,
kept the part of that province which adjoins Brittany under subjection
to Henri IV. by the rigor of his executions. The head of one of the
richest families in France, he had considerably increased the revenues
of his great estates by marrying seven months before the night on
which this history begins, Jeanne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by
a not uncommon chance in days when people were killed off like flies,
had suddenly become the representative of both branches of the Saint-
Savin family. Necessity and terror were the causes which led to this
union. At a banquet given, two months after the marriage, to the Comte
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