| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: SOCRATES: That again, Gorgias is ambiguous; I am still in the dark: for
which are the greatest and best of human things? I dare say that you have
heard men singing at feasts the old drinking song, in which the singers
enumerate the goods of life, first health, beauty next, thirdly, as the
writer of the song says, wealth honestly obtained.
GORGIAS: Yes, I know the song; but what is your drift?
SOCRATES: I mean to say, that the producers of those things which the
author of the song praises, that is to say, the physician, the trainer, the
money-maker, will at once come to you, and first the physician will say:
'O Socrates, Gorgias is deceiving you, for my art is concerned with the
greatest good of men and not his.' And when I ask, Who are you? he will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As long as the river flows,
As long as the heart has passions,
As long as life has woes;
The moon and its broken reflection
And its shadows shall appear,
As the symbol of love in heaven,
And its wavering image here.
TO THE DRIVING CLOUD
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas;
Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud, whose name thou hast taken!
Wrapt in thy scarlet blanket, I see thee stalk through the city's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: And those who misbelieve say, 'This is nothing but a lie which he
has forged, and another people hath helped him at it;' but they have
wrought an injustice and a falsehood.
And they say, 'Old folks' tales, which he has got written down while
they are dictated to him morning and evening.'
Say, 'He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the
earth; verily, He is ever forgiving, merciful!'
And they say, 'What ails this prophet that he eats food and walks in
the markets?- unless there be sent down to him an angel and be a
warner with him.... Or there be thrown to him a treasury, or he have a
garden to eat therefrom....!' and the unjust say, 'Ye only follow an
The Koran |
