| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: shed
by mighty press-stones.
21 Thou art the Bull of earth, the Bull of heaven, Bull of
the rivers,
Bull of standing waters.
For thee, the Strong, O Bull, hath Indu swollen. juice pleasant,
sweet
to drink, for thine election.
22 This God, with might, when first he had his being, with
Indra for
ally, held fast the Pani.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: hitherto expressed, where all seemed to refer to some world
distant from that which was existing around him.
"It is so," answered Varney; "you understand women well, though
it may have been long since you were conversant amongst them.
Well, then, she is not to be contradicted; yet she is not to be
humoured. Understand me--a slight illness, sufficient to take
away the desire of removing from thence, and to make such of your
wise fraternity as may be called in to aid, recommend a quiet
residence at home, will, in one word, be esteemed good service,
and remunerated as such."
"I am not to be asked to affect the House of Life?" said the
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: audible voice, and entered a room splendidly lit up,
quite full of company, and insufferably hot. When they had
paid their tribute of politeness by curtsying to the lady
of the house, they were permitted to mingle in the crowd,
and take their share of the heat and inconvenience, to
which their arrival must necessarily add. After some time
spent in saying little or doing less, Lady Middleton sat
down to Cassino, and as Marianne was not in spirits for
moving about, she and Elinor luckily succeeding to chairs,
placed themselves at no great distance from the table.
They had not remained in this manner long, before Elinor
Sense and Sensibility |
