| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: But beneath, the Evil Spirits
Lay in ambush, waiting for him,
Broke the treacherous ice beneath him,
Dragged him downward to the bottom,
Buried in the sand his body.
Unktahee, the god of water,
He the god of the Dacotahs,
Drowned him in the deep abysses
Of the lake of Gitche Gumee.
From the headlands Hiawatha
Sent forth such a wail of anguish,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: would abhor it! then fear God; verily, God is relentant,
compassionate.
O ye folk! verily, we have created you of male and female, and
made you races and tribes that ye may know each other.
Verily, the most honourable of you in the sight of God is the most
pious of you; verily, God is knowing, aware!
The desert Arabs say, 'We believe.' Say, 'Ye do not believe; but
say, "We have become Muslims;" for the faith has not entered into your
hearts: but if ye obey God and His Apostle He will not defraud you
of your works at all: verily, God is forgiving, compassionate!'
The believers are only those who believe in God and His Apostle, and
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: by chance they survived the present war, which seemed to be one of
extermination. He relied on his face to win him promotion; he saw
himself made colonel by feminine influence and a carefully managed
transition from captain of equipment to orderly officer, and from
orderly officer to aide-de-camp on the staff of some easy-going
marshal. By that time, he reflected, he should come into his property
of a hundred thousand scudi a year, some journal would speak of him as
"the brave Montefiore," he would marry a girl of rank, and no one
would dare to dispute his courage or verify his wounds.
Captain Montefiore had one friend in the person of the quartermaster,
--a Provencal, born in the neighborhood of Nice, whose name was Diard.
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