| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: their Lord; he says, 'Is not this the truth?' They say, Yea, by our
Lord!' he says, 'Then taste the torment, for that ye did misbelieve!'
Losers are they who disbelieved in meeting God, until when the
hour comes suddenly upon them they say, 'Woe is us for our neglect
thereof!' for they shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is
what they bear.
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely
the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not
understand?
Full well we know that verily that which they say grieves thee;
but they do not call thee only a liar, for the unjust gainsay the
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: which had a secret and malign significance. The wood on
either side was full of singular noises, among which -- once,
twice, and again -- he distinctly heard whispers in an
unknown tongue.
His neck was in pain and lifting his hand to it found it
horribly swollen. He knew that it had a circle of black
where the rope had bruised it. His eyes felt congested; he
could no longer close them. His tongue was swollen with
thirst; he relieved its fever by thrusting it forward from
between his teeth into the cold air. How softly the turf had
carpeted the untraveled avenue -- he could no longer feel the
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: plains."
Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have
who listens to the most silent of all living things--the wild
elephant. He turned where he was lying all along on Pudmini's
back and said, "What is that? I did not know of a man among the
plains-drivers who had wit enough to rope even a dead elephant."
"This is not a man, but a boy. He went into the Keddah at the
last drive, and threw Barmao there the rope, when we were trying
to get that young calf with the blotch on his shoulder away from
his mother."
Machua Appa pointed at Little Toomai, and Petersen Sahib
The Jungle Book |
