| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: fulfilled; for, verily, he was possessed of knowledge, for that we had
taught him;- but most men do not know.
And when they entered in unto Joseph, he took his brother to stay
with him, and said, 'Verily, I am thy brother- then take not ill
that which they have been doing.'
And when he had equipped them with their equipment he placed the
drinking cup in his brother's pack; then a crier cried out, 'O ye
caravan! verily, ye are thieves!'
They said, approaching them, 'What is it that ye miss?'
Said they, 'We miss the goblet of the king, and whoso brings it
shall have a camel-load, and I am guarantee thereof.'
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: of contemporary philosophy, the other not admitting of an entire solution.
(1) The difficulty which Socrates says that he experienced in explaining
generation and corruption; the assumption of hypotheses which proceed from
the less general to the more general, and are tested by their consequences;
the puzzle about greater and less; the resort to the method of ideas, which
to us appear only abstract terms,--these are to be explained out of the
position of Socrates and Plato in the history of philosophy. They were
living in a twilight between the sensible and the intellectual world, and
saw no way of connecting them. They could neither explain the relation of
ideas to phenomena, nor their correlation to one another. The very idea of
relation or comparison was embarrassing to them. Yet in this intellectual
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: something that might eventually alter both their lives. In what
sense she could not conjecture: she merely felt that the fact
of his having chosen a job and stuck to it, if only through a
few rosy summer weeks, had already given him a new way of saying
"Yes" and "No."
VII.
OF some new ferment at work in him Nick Lansing himself was
equally aware. He was a better judge of the book he was trying
to write than either Susy or Strefford; he knew its weaknesses,
its treacheries, its tendency to slip through his fingers just
as he thought his grasp tightest; but he knew also that at the
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