| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: RIVERS TO THE SEA
Why am I crying after love
With youth, a singing voice and eyes
To take earth's wonder with surprise?
Why have I put off my pride,
Why am I unsatisfied,
I for whom the pensive night
Binds her cloudy hair with light,
I for whom all beauty burns
Like incense in a million urns?
Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: amongst you shall be judge- an offering brought to the Kaabah; or as
an expiation, the food of poor persons, or an equivalent thereof in
fasting, that he may taste the evil result of his deed. God pardons
bygones; but whoso returns, God will take vengeance on him, for God is
mighty and the avenger.
Lawful for you is the game of the sea, and to eat thereof; a
provision for you and for travellers; but forbidden you is the game of
the land while ye are on pilgrimage; so fear God to whom ye shall be
gathered.
God has made the Kaabah, the sacred House, to be a station for
men, and the sacred month, and the offering and its neck garland; this
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: endeavor to elicit the details.
The result of her effort was the knowledge that on the
second day they were to sail for the Pamarung Islands
upon a small schooner which her father had purchased,
with a crew of Malays and lascars, and von Horn, who
had served in the American navy, in command. The
precise point of destination was still undecided--the
plan being to search out a suitable location upon one
of the many little islets which dot the western shore
of the Macassar Strait.
Of the many men Virginia had met during the month at
The Monster Men |
