| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The book-shelves were her darling treasure,
She rarely seemed the time to measure
While she could read alone.
And she too loved the twilight wood
And often, in her mother's mood,
Away to yonder hill would hie,
Like her, to watch the setting sun,
Or see the stars born, one by one,
Out of the darkening sky.
Nor would she leave that hill till night
Trembled from pole to pole with light;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: More often they are muddy and soiled--soiled, if not
in their real essence, yet by reason of the mortal phial in which
they are contained." And that alas! is true. If you pour
a phial of muddy water into that reservoir which we described
--what will you see? You will see a queer and ugly cloud
formed. And to how many of us, in our dealings with the world,
does life take on just such a form--of a queer and ugly cloud?
Now not so very long after those Upanishads were written
there lived in China that great Teacher, Lao-tze; and he too
had considered these things. And he wrote--in the Tao-Teh-
King--"Who is there who can make muddy water clear?"
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her
hair and gnashed her teeth. And then she called a dozen of her
slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling
them to go to the strangers and destroy them.
The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as
they were told. So they marched away until they came near to
Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them,
and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast
as they could.
When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them
well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which
The Wizard of Oz |
