| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: OH world, with what baseness and guilt thou art rife!
Thou nurtures, trainest, and illest the while.
He only whom Allah doth bless with his smile
Is train'd and is nurtured with riches and life.
1819.*
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SULEIKA (Speaks).
THE mirror tells me, I am fair!
Thou sayest, to grow old my fate will be.
Nought in God's presence changeth e'er,--
Love him, for this one moment, then, in me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: men. And to that austere and reticent cotter he was careful to
speak very well of the gods, and to praise all the blessings they
had ever accorded him.
That night Carter camped in a roadside
meadow beneath a great lygath-tree to which he tied his yak, and
in the morning resumed his northward pilgrimage. At about ten
o'clock he reached the small-domed village of Urg, where traders
rest and miners tell their tales, and paused in its taverns till
noon. It is here that the great caravan road turns west toward
Selarn, but Carter kept on north by the quarry road. All the afternoon
he followed that rising road, which was somewhat narrower than
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Among our other torments not the least,
Still unfulfilled with pain of longing pines.
Yet let me not forget what I have gained
From their own mouths: All is not theirs, it seems;
One fatal tree there stands, of knowledge called,
Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidden
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be sin to know?
Can it be death? And do they only stand
By ignorance? Is that their happy state,
The proof of their obedience and their faith?
Paradise Lost |
