| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: two feet, may be said to be the diameter of our diameter.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly; and now I think that I pretty nearly understand
you.
STRANGER: In these divisions, Socrates, I descry what would make another
famous jest.
YOUNG SOCRATES: What is it?
STRANGER: Human beings have come out in the same class with the freest and
airiest of creation, and have been running a race with them.
YOUNG SOCRATES: I remark that very singular coincidence.
STRANGER: And would you not expect the slowest to arrive last?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Indeed I should.
Statesman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: That not all uncontested I sit.
Alone, did I say? O no, nowise alone
With the Past sitting warm on my knee,
To gossip of days that are over and gone,
But still charming to her and to me.
With much to be glad of and much to deplore,
Yet, as these days with those we compare,
Believe me, my friend, tho' the sorrows seem more
They are somehow more easy to bear.
And thou, faded Future, uncertain and frail,
As I cherish thy light in each draught,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: likeness of the people who say God's signs are lies! but God guides
not an unjust people.
Say, 'O ye who are Jews! if ye pretend that ye are the clients of
God, beyond other people; then wish for death if ye do speak the
truth!'
But they never wish for it, through what their hands have sent
before! but God knows the unjust.
Say, 'Verily, the death from which ye flee will surely meet you;
then shall ye be sent back to Him who knows the unseen and the
visible, and He will inform you of that which ye have done!'
O ye who believe! when the call to prayer is made upon the
The Koran |
