| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: him in his absence, and that God guides not the craft of those who
do betray! Yet I do not clear myself, for the soul is very urgent to
evil, save what my Lord has had mercy on; verily, my Lord is forgiving
and merciful!'
And the king said, 'Bring him to me. I will take him specially for
myself.' And when he had spoken with him he said, 'Verily, to-day thou
art with us in a permanent place of trust.'
He said, 'Place me over the treasures of the land; verily, I will be
a knowing keeper.'
Thus did we stablish Joseph in the land that he might settle in what
part thereof he pleased- we overtake with our mercy whom we will,
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: the moment strike me forcibly. We rode on. The forest became lighter,
glimpses of sky showed low down through the trees, we were nearing a slope.
For the third time the old hunter brought us to a stop, this time on the
edge of a slope that led down to the rolling foot-hills. I could only stand
and gaze. Those open stretches, sloping down, all green and brown and
beautiful, robbed me of thought.
"Look thar!" cried Hiram Bent.
His tone startled me. I faced about, to see his powerful arm outstretched
and his finger pointing. His stern face added to my sudden concern.
Something was wrong with my friends. I glanced in the direction he
indicated. There were two rolling slopes or steps below us, and they were
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the
proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as
machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly
everywhere reduces wages to the same low level. The growing
competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial
crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. The
unceasing improvement of machinery, ever more rapidly developing,
makes their livelihood more and more precarious; the collisions
between individual workmen and individual bourgeois take more and
more the character of collisions between two classes. Thereupon
the workers begin to form combinations (Trades Unions) against
The Communist Manifesto |
