| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Fig-tree
which victorious priests surround: victorious be they still
for us.
At once the cows yield milk, the barleymeal is dressed. For
thee,
O Vayu, never shall the cows grow thin, never for thee shall
they be
dry.
9 These Bulls of thine, O Vayu with the arm of strength, who
swiftly
fly within the current of thy stream, the Bulls increasing
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful. `I'd rather see that done on
paper,' he said.
Alice couldn't help smiling as she took out her memorandum-
book, and worked the sum for him:
365
1
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364
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Humpty Dumpty took the book, and looked at it carefully. `That
seems to be done right--' he began.
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: showered upon him, were such as to win for him the surname of
Illustrious. Wherever the fellow went,--behind a counter or before a
bar, into a salon or to the top of a stage-coach, up to a garret or to
dine with a banker,--every one said, the moment they saw him, "Ah!
here comes the illustrious Gaudissart!"[*] No name was ever so in
keeping with the style, the manners, the countenance, the voice, the
language, of any man. All things smiled upon our traveller, and the
traveller smiled back in return. "Similia similibus,"--he believed in
homoeopathy. Puns, horse-laugh, monkish face, skin of a friar, true
Rabelaisian exterior, clothing, body, mind, and features, all pulled
together to put a devil-may-care jollity into every inch of his
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