| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son
Was kinder to his father than my daughters
Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
To't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.
Behold yond simp'ring dame,
Whose face between her forks presageth snow,
That minces virtue, and does shake the head
To hear of pleasure's name.
The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't
With a more riotous appetite.
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: They say, 'What! when we have become bones and rubbish are we to
be raised up a new creature?' Say, 'Be ye stones, or iron, or a
creature, the greatest your breasts can conceive-!' Then they shall
say, 'Who is to restore us?' Say, 'He who originated you at first;'
and they will wag their heads and say, 'When will that be? Say, 'It
may, perhaps, be nigh.'
The day when He shall call on you and ye shall answer with praise to
Him, and they will think that they have tarried but a little.
And say to my servants that they speak in a kind way; verily,
Satan makes ill-will between them; verily, Satan was ever unto man
an open foe.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: terms than with a brother.
"Why, Hippolyte, what ails you?" asked Francois Souchet, the
young sculptor who had just won the first prize, and was soon to
set out for Italy.
"I am most unhappy," replied Hippolyte gravely.
"Nothing but a love affair can cause you grief. Money, glory,
respect--you lack nothing."
Insensibly the painter was led into confidences, and confessed
his love. The moment he mentioned the Rue de Suresnes, and a
young girl living on the fourth floor, "Stop, stop," cried
Souchet lightly. "A little girl I see every morning at the Church
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