| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: gladden
find their way to Indra's heart.
8 While thou art purified pour on us hero strength, great,
far-extended shelter, spacious pasturage.
Let no oppression master this our holy work: may we, O Indu,
gain all
opulence through thee.
9 The Steer who sees afar hath risen above the sky: the Sage
hath
caused the lights of heaven to give their shine.
The. King is passing through the filter with a roar: they drain
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: MISS HARDCASTLE. I hope, sir, a conversation begun with a compliment
to my good sense, won't end with a sneer at my understanding?
HARDCASTLE. Pardon me, Kate. But if young Mr. Brazen can find the art
of reconciling contradictions, he may please us both, perhaps.
MISS HARDCASTLE. And as one of us must be mistaken, what if we go to
make further discoveries?
HARDCASTLE. Agreed. But depend on't I'm in the right.
MISS HARDCASTLE. And depend on't I'm not much in the wrong.
[Exeunt.]
Enter Tony, running in with a casket.
TONY. Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's
She Stoops to Conquer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: tied on your back, and that's marriage. And that's what I felt
when I was married. My hands were suddenly set free. But to drag
that fardeau about with you without marriage, your hands will
always be so full that you can do nothing. Look at Mazankov, at
Krupov. They've ruined their careers for the sake of women."
"What women!" said Vronsky, recalling the Frenchwoman and the
actress with whom the two men he had mentioned were connected.
"The firmer the woman's footing in society, the worse it is.
That's much the same as--not merely carrying the fardeau in your
arms--but tearing it away from some one else."
"You have never loved," Vronsky said softly, looking straight
Anna Karenina |
