| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
The Waste Land |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: MAT 21:7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their
clothes, and they set him thereon.
MAT 21:8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way;
others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
MAT 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried,
saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
MAT 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved,
saying, Who is this?
MAT 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth
of Galilee.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: wide.
Quietly, swiftly, the canoe went gliding down the stream;
and ever as it crept along, the moose loped easily before it,
from point to point, from bay to bay, past the little cabin,
down the River of the Way Out, now rustling unseen through a
bank of tall alders, now standing out for a moment bold and
black on a beach of white sand--so all day long the moose loped
down the stream and the white canoe followed. Just as the
setting sun was poised above the trees, the great bull stopped
and stood with head lifted. Luke pushed the canoe as near as he
dared, and looked down for the rifle. He had left it at the
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