| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: be praised!
God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! and God
sufficeth for a guardian!
If He will He can make ye pass away, O men! and can bring others;-
God is able to do all that.
He who wishes for a reward in this world,- with God is the reward of
this world and of the next, and God both hears and sees.
O ye who believe! be ye steadfast in justice, witnessing before
God though it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your kindred,
be it rich or poor, for God is nearer akin than either.
Follow not, then, lusts, so as to act partially; but if ye swerve or
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: Friendship; Cic. de Amicitia.)
LYSIS, OR FRIENDSHIP
by
Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus,
Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus.
SCENE: A newly-erected Palaestra outside the walls of Athens.
I was going from the Academy straight to the Lyceum, intending to take the
outer road, which is close under the wall. When I came to the postern gate
of the city, which is by the fountain of Panops, I fell in with
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: We saw as we crossed the railway bridge that a growing
crowd of people had assembled in and about the railway
station, and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and
packages. The ordinary traffic had been stopped, I believe, in
order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey,
and I have heard since that a savage struggle occurred for
places in the special trains that were put on at a later hour.
We remained at Weybridge until midday, and at that hour
we found ourselves at the place near Shepperton Lock where
the Wey and Thames join. Part of the time we spent helping
two old women to pack a little cart. The Wey has a treble
War of the Worlds |
