| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: the stage of THINKING it would perhaps be necessary that
the lark should be exiled from the earth and the sky, and
confined in a cage. Early Man FELT the great truths and
realities of Life--often I believe more purely than we do
--but he could not give form to his experience. THAT
stage came when he began to lose touch with these realities;
and it showed itself in rites and ceremonials. The inbreak
of self-consciousness brought OUT the facts of his inner
life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms.
Let me give examples. For a long time the Tribe is
all in all; the individual is completely subject to the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: that you want to consult me about?"
It was about the necklace, which she was now most earnestly
longing to return, and hoped to obtain his approbation
of her doing. She gave the history of her recent visit,
and now her raptures might well be over; for Edmund was so
struck with the circumstance, so delighted with what Miss
Crawford had done, so gratified by such a coincidence
of conduct between them, that Fanny could not but admit
the superior power of one pleasure over his own mind,
though it might have its drawback. It was some time
before she could get his attention to her plan, or any
Mansfield Park |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: That didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
GLOUCESTER. Say that I slew them not?
ANNE. Then say they were not slain.
But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee.
GLOUCESTER. I did not kill your husband.
ANNE. Why, then he is alive.
GLOUCESTER. Nay, he is dead, and slain by Edward's hands.
ANNE. In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw
Thy murd'rous falchion smoking in his blood;
The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
Richard III |
