| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: nigh and must be lauded.
2 This Steed which Yama gave hath Trita harnessed, and him,
the first
of all, hath Indra mounted.
His bridle the Gandharva grasped. O Vasus, from out the Sun
ye
fashioned forth the Courser.
3 Yama art thou, O Horse; thou art Aditya; Trita art thou by
secret
operation.
Thou art divided thoroughly from Soma. They say thou hast three
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: interest in life and work: such a 'system' must infallibly
pass away. It cannot in the nature of things be permanent.
The first condition of social happiness and prosperity must
be the sense of the Common Life. This sense, which
instinctively underlay the whole Tribal order of the far past--
which first came to consciousness in the worship of a thousand
pagan divinities, and in the rituals of countless sacrifices,
initiations, redemptions, love-feasts and communions, which
inspired the dreams of the Golden Age, and flashed out for
a time in the Communism of the early Christians and in
their adorations of the risen Savior--must in the end be
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: My house, with everything my house contains
Is yours, and only yours.
A hundred thousand!
My brain is dazed. I shall be richer far
Than all the other merchants. I will buy
Vineyards and lands and gardens. Every loom
From Milan down to Sicily shall be mine,
And mine the pearls that the Arabian seas
Store in their silent caverns.
Generous Prince,
This night shall prove the herald of my love,
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