| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: might.
This was his manly exploit, he slew Vrtra and let loose the
floods,
lauding his own imperial sway.
11 Yea, even this great Pair of Worlds trembled in terror at
thy
wrath,
When, Indra, Thunderer, Marut-girt, thou slewest Vrtra in thy
strength, lauding thine own imperial sway.
12 But Vrtra scared not Indra with his shaking or his thunder
roar.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: asked what was the quality, but what was the nature, of the art, and by
what name we were to describe Gorgias. And I would still beg you briefly
and clearly, as you answered Chaerephon when he asked you at first, to say
what this art is, and what we ought to call Gorgias: Or rather, Gorgias,
let me turn to you, and ask the same question,--what are we to call you,
and what is the art which you profess?
GORGIAS: Rhetoric, Socrates, is my art.
SOCRATES: Then I am to call you a rhetorician?
GORGIAS: Yes, Socrates, and a good one too, if you would call me that
which, in Homeric language, 'I boast myself to be.'
SOCRATES: I should wish to do so.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: it really had done so why was she so racked now? She felt,
desperately, that she could not let him go until he had had some
real joy. To think that she used to plan, cold-bloodedly, when
Billy was little, all she would do if only Martin should happen
to die! The memory of it smote her as with a blow. She looked
down at the powerful hand lying so passively, almost, she would
have said, contentedly, in her own. How she had yearned for the
comfort of it when her children were born. She wondered if Martin
realized her touch, if it helped a little. If it had annoyed him,
he would have said so. It came to her oddly that in all the
twenty-seven years she and her husband had been married this was
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