| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: not able to do so. Without finishing what he had begun to say he
made a hopeless movement with his arm and went away.
CHAPTER XII
After the execution Pierre was separated from the rest of the
prisoners and placed alone in a small, ruined, and befouled church.
Toward evening a noncommissioned officer entered with two soldiers
and told him that he had been pardoned and would now go to the
barracks for the prisoners of war. Without understanding what was said
to him, Pierre got up and went with the soldiers. They took him to the
upper end of the field, where there were some sheds built of charred
planks, beams, and battens, and led him into one of them. In the
War and Peace |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: with your
delightful succours.
4 O Indra-Varuna, vouchsafe us riches with store of treasure,
food,
and every blessing;
For the Aditya, banisher of falsehood, the Hero, dealeth wealth
in
boundless plenty.
5 May this my song reach Varuna and Indra, and, strongly urging,
win
me sons and offspring.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: The men returned to the dining-room, Muller last, for he stopped
to lock the door of the study and put the key in his pocket. Then
he began his examination of the servants.
The old housekeeper, who, as usual, was the first to rise in the
household, had also, as usual, rung the bell to waken the other
servants. Then when Liska came downstairs she had sent her up
to the pastor's room. His bedroom was to the right of the
diningroom. Liska had, as usual, knocked on the door exactly at
seven o'clock and continued knocking for some few minutes without
receiving any answer. Slightly alarmed, the girl had gone back
and told the housekeeper that the pastor did not answer.
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