| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: Mental conditions: Constitutional excitement. Case 22.
Girl, age 14 years.
Developmental conditions: Defective pregnancy.
Early impaction of teeth.
Poor general physical conditions.
Home conditions: Poverty. Irritability of father and
mother.
Delinquencies: Mentality:
Running away. Ability good;
Stealing. Constitutional
Lying. excitement.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: He only shall repair to the mosques of God who believes in God and
the last day, and is steadfast in prayer, and gives the alms, and
fears only God;- it may be that these will be of those who are guided.
Have ye made out the giving drink to the pilgrims and the
repairing to the Sacred Mosque to be like being one who believes in
God and in the last day, and is strenuous in the way of God?- they are
not equal in God's sight, and God guides not an unjust people.
Those who believe and who have fled and been strenuous in the way of
God, with their wealth and with their persons, are highest in rank
with God, and these it is who are happy. Their Lord gives them glad
tidings of mercy from Himself, and goodwill; and gardens shall they
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: know, and consider it obligatory to know, that there is ART in
every good sentence--art which must be divined, if the sentence
is to be understood! If there is a misunderstanding about its
TEMPO, for instance, the sentence itself is misunderstood! That
one must not be doubtful about the rhythm-determining syllables,
that one should feel the breaking of the too-rigid symmetry as
intentional and as a charm, that one should lend a fine and
patient ear to every STACCATO and every RUBATO, that one should
divine the sense in the sequence of the vowels and diphthongs,
and how delicately and richly they can be tinted and retinted in
the order of their arrangement--who among book-reading Germans is
Beyond Good and Evil |
