| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: day; He knows that ye cannot calculate it, and He turns relentant
towards you.
So read what is easy of the Koran. He knows that there will be of
you some who are sick and others who beat about in the earth craving
the grace of God, and others who are fighting in the cause of God.
Then read what is easy of it and be steadfast in prayer, and give
alms, and lend to God a goodly loan, for what ye send forward for
yourselves of good ye will find it with God. It is better and a
greater hire; and ask ye pardon of God: verily, God is forgiving,
merciful!
THE CHAPTER OF THE 'COVERED'
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: just to lie in the sun on this mountainside and try to
pull myself together. I didn't think life could ever
be worth living again. But it was. I found about me
so much of human need--so much ignorance and
helplessness--so much to pity and love, I forgot the
ache in my own heart in bringing joy to others.
"I had money enough. I gave up the ambitions of
greed and strife and set my soul to higher tasks. For
nine years I've devoted my leisure hours to the study
of Motherhood as the hope of a nobler humanity. But
for the great personal sorrow that came to me in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: notwithstanding, a pair of she-goats from Earnscliff, which fed
on the moor, and supplied him with milk.
When Earnscliff found his gift had been received, he soon
afterwards paid the hermit a visit. The old man was seated an a
broad flat stone near his garden door, which was the seat of
science he usually occupied when disposed to receive his patients
or clients. The inside of his hut, and that of his garden, he
kept as sacred from human intrusion as the natives of Otaheite do
their Morai;--apparently he would have deemed it polluted by the
step of any human being. When he shut himself up in his
habitation, no entreaty could prevail upon him to make himself
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