| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: moustache on her lip. Nekhludoff was fond of her and had even as
a child been infected by her energy and mirth.
"No, ma tante, that's at an end. I only wish to help her, because
she is innocently accused. "I am the cause of it and the cause of
her fate being what it is. I feel it my duty to do all I can for
her."
"But what is this I have heard about your intention of marrying
her?"
"Yes, it was my intention, but she does not wish it."
Katerina Ivanovna looked at her nephew with raised brows and
drooping eyeballs, in silent amazement. Suddenly her face
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: so much absorbed in thought as to approach to the unconsciousness
of sleep, the movement is probably a conventional one--
the result of the common belief that Heaven, the source of Divine
power to which we pray, is seated above us.
[24] `The Descent of Man,' vol. ii. p. 336.
A humble kneeling posture, with the hands upturned and palms joined,
appears to us, from long habit, a gesture so appropriate to devotion,
that it might be thought to be innate; but I have not met with any
evidence to this effect with the various extra-European races of mankind.
During the classical period of Roman history it does not appear, as I hear
from an excellent classic, that the hands were thus joined during prayer.
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: know about God? We see he is great and mighty, and can do what he
will: we are lost, as if we was struggling in great waters, when
we try to think of him.
"But perhaps doubts come into your mind like this: Can God take
much notice of us poor people? Perhaps he only made the world for
the great and the wise and the rich. It doesn't cost him much to
give us our little handful of victual and bit of clothing; but how
do we know he cares for us any more than we care for the worms and
things in the garden, so as we rear our carrots and onions? Will
God take care of us when we die? And has he any comfort for us
when we are lame and sick and helpless? Perhaps, too, he is angry
Adam Bede |
