| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: glances. Children ran forward between the houses, peeped fearfully
round corners; young boys kept up with him, gliding between bushes:
their eyes gleamed through the dark leaves. The old sword-bearer,
shouldering the silver scabbard, shuffled hastily at his heels with
bowed head, and his eyes on the ground. And in the midst of a great
stir they passed swift and absorbed, like two men hurrying through a
great solitude.
In his council hall he was surrounded by the gravity of armed chiefs,
while two long rows of old headmen dressed in cotton stuffs squatted
on their heels, with idle arms hanging over their knees. Under the
thatch roof supported by smooth columns, of which each one had cost
Tales of Unrest |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Beloved One
hath gained high power of life,
11 Thou, comprehending with thy might the earth and heaven,
acceptest
the dear hymn for ever new and new.
O Asura, disclose thou and make visible the Cow's beloved home
to the
bright golden Sun.
12 O Indra, let the eager wishes of the folk bring thee, delightful,
golden-visored, on thy car,
That, pleased with sacrifice wherein ten fingers toil, thou
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: found himself one of a crowd of invisible fugitives
pressing in one direction. His one thought now was
their thought also; to escape out of this fighting. He
thrust and struck, staggered, ran, was wedged tightly,
lost ground and then was clear again.
For some minutes he was running through the darkness
along a winding passage, and then he crossed
some wide and open space, passed down a long incline,
and came at last down a flight of steps to a level place.
Many people were shouting, "They are coming! The
guards are coming. They are firing. Get out of the
When the Sleeper Wakes |
