| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: Then the tailor started; for
suddenly, interrupting him, from the
dresser at the other side of the kitchen
came a number of little noises--
Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!
"Now what can that be?" said the
Tailor of Gloucester, jumping up from
his chair. The tailor crossed the
kitchen, and stood quite still beside
the dresser, listening, and peering
through his spectacles.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: I say, are held conjoined one with other,
And form one single nature of themselves;
But chief and regnant through the frame entire
Is still that counsel which we call the mind,
And that cleaves seated in the midmost breast.
Here leap dismay and terror; round these haunts
Be blandishments of joys; and therefore here
The intellect, the mind. The rest of soul,
Throughout the body scattered, but obeys-
Moved by the nod and motion of the mind.
This, for itself, sole through itself, hath thought;
Of The Nature of Things |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: their hearts are given to denial, and they are big with pride!
Without a doubt God knows what ye keep secret and what ye disclose!
Verily, He does not love those big with pride!
And when it is said to them, 'What is it that your Lord has sent
down?' they say, 'Old folks' tales!'
Let them bear the burden of their sins entirely on the
resurrection day, and some of the burdens of those whom they led
astray without knowledge.- Aye! an ill burden shall they bear.
Those who were before them devised a stratagem, but God brought
their building off its foundations, and the roof fell over them, and
the torment came to them, from whence they could not perceive.
The Koran |
