| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the
cutting-into-the-quick--how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such
seed, however--is truth produced!
BESIDE the bad conscience hath hitherto grown all KNOWLEDGE! Break up,
break up, ye discerning ones, the old tables!
8.
When the water hath planks, when gangways and railings o'erspan the stream,
verily, he is not believed who then saith: "All is in flux."
But even the simpletons contradict him. "What?" say the simpletons, "all
in flux? Planks and railings are still OVER the stream!
"OVER the stream all is stable, all the values of things, the bridges and
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come
forth of them all.
ECC 7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which
are in the city.
ECC 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and
sinneth not.
ECC 7:21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou
hear thy servant curse thee:
ECC 7:22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself
likewise hast cursed others.
ECC 7:23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: there harboured our Lord: and after he was baptised of the
apostles and was clept Julian, and was made bishop; and this is the
same Julian that men clepe to for good harbourage, for our Lord
harboured with him in his house. And in that house our Lord
forgave Mary Magdalene her sins: there she washed his feet with
her tears, and wiped them with her hair. And there served Saint
Martha our Lord. There our Lord raised Lazarus from death to life,
that was dead four days and stank, that was brother to Mary
Magdalene and to Martha. And there dwelt also Mary Cleophas. That
castle is well a mile long from Jerusalem. Also in coming down
from the mount of Olivet is the place where our Lord wept upon
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