| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: dominion
over precious wealth.
These the Seven Rivers flowing on their downward path increase
the
vital vigour of the potent Steer.
4 As on the fair-leafed tree rest birds, to Indra flow the
gladdening
Soma juices that the bowls contain.
Their face that glows with splendour through their mighty power
hath
found the shine of heaven for man, the Aryas' light.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: keys, he fell back in his chair, resting his head on the top of it.
"/Per Bacco!/ I am quite stunned," said the Count as he left the
house. "A child dancing on the keyboard would make better music."
"Certainly mere chance could not more successfully avoid hitting two
notes in concord than that possessed creature has done during the past
hour," said Giardini.
"How is it that the regular beauty of Marianna's features is not
spoiled by incessantly hearing such a hideous medley?" said the Count
to himself. "Marianna will certainly grow ugly."
"Signor, she must be saved from that," cried Giardini.
"Yes," said Andrea. "I have thought of that. Still, to be sure that my
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
'Jug Jug' to dirty ears.
And other withered stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still, 110
'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
The Waste Land |
