| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: City.
Sparkling green gems ornamented the fronts of the beautiful houses and the
towers and turrets were all faced with emeralds. Even the green marble
pavement glittered with precious stones, and it was indeed a grand and
marvelous sight to one who beheld it for the first time.
However, the Pumpkinhead and the Saw-Horse,
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knowing nothing of wealth and beauty, paid little attention to the wonderful
sights they saw through their green spectacles. They calmly followed after
the green soldier and scarcely noticed the crowds of green people who stared
at them in surprise. When a green dog ran out and barked at them the Saw-
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: continually as heat, of which the greater part was radiated off,
but of which a certain amount was retained. All the gigantic
amount of work achieved in the geologic development of our earth
and its companion planets, and in the development of life
wherever life may exist in our system, has been the product of
this retained heat. At the present day the same wasteful process
is going on. Each moment the sun's particles are losing energy of
position as they draw closer and closer together, and the heat
into which this lost energy is metamorphosed is poured out most
prodigally in every direction. Let us consider for a moment how
little of it gets used in our system. The earth's orbit is a
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: A chapter which we have sent down and determined, and have sent down
therein manifest signs; haply ye may be mindful.
The whore and the whoremonger. Scourge each of them with a hundred
stripes, and do not let pity for them take hold of you in God's
religion, if ye believe in God and the last day; and let a party of
the believers witness their torment. And the whoremonger shall marry
none but a whore or an idolatress; and the whore shall none marry
but an adulterer or an idolater; God has prohibited this to the
believers; but those who cast (imputations) on chaste women and then
do not bring four witnesses, scourge them with eighty stripes, and
do not receive any testimony of theirs ever, for these are the workers
The Koran |
