| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: Father " At first this seemed to help. In say-
ing his prayers he began to recollect his whole
life; his father, his mother, the village, the dog
"Wolf," the old grandfather lying on the stove,
the bench on which the children used to play; then
the girls in the village with their songs, his horses
and how they had been stolen, and how the thief
was caught and how he killed him with a stone.
He recollected also the first prison he was in and
his leaving it, and the fat innkeeper, the carter's
wife and the children. Then again SHE came to
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: "Oh, how jolly! There, sit down at the desk.
And while you are telephoning I'll change my dress.
I shan't be long. All the morning papers are on the table."
Hilda was back in a few moments wearing a
long gray squirrel coat and a broad fur hat.
Bartley rose and inspected her. "Why don't
you wear some of those pink roses?" he asked.
"But they came only this morning,
and they have not even begun to open.
I was saving them. I am so unconsciously thrifty!"
She laughed as she looked about the room.
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory?' For then the power of
death is utterly annulled and destroyed, no longer working in us,
but for the future there is given unto men immortality and
incorruption for evermore.
"Beyond all question, therefore, there shall be a resurrection of
the dead, and this we believe undoubtingly. Moreover we know
that there shall be rewards and punishments for the deeds done in
our life-time, on the dreadful day of Christ's coming, `wherein
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