| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: towards Him, 'If thou dost save from this we will surely be of those
who thank.' But when He has saved them, lo! they are wilful in the
earth unjustly;- O ye folk! your wilfulness against yourselves is
but a provision of this world's life; then unto us is your return, and
we will inform you of that which ye have done!
Verily, the likeness of this world's life is like water which we
send down from the sky, and the plants of the earth, from which men
and cattle eat, are mingled therewith; until when the earth puts on
its gilding and is adorned, the people thereof think that they have
power over it. Our order comes to it by night or day, and we make it
as it were mown down- as though it had not yesterday been rich!-
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: With the Pagan, the cave in the desert, and sought
Not repose, but employment in action or thought,
Life's strong earnest, in all things! oh, think not of me,
But yourself! for I plead for your own destiny:
I plead for your life, with its duties undone,
With its claims unappeased, and its trophies unwon;
And in pleading for life's fair fulfilment, I plead
For all that you miss, and for all that you need."
XI.
Through the calm crystal air, faint and far, as she spoke,
A clear, chilly chime from a church-turret broke;
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: just now was I thinking of him!" Zarathustra answered:
"Why art thou frightened on that account?--But it is the same with man as
with the tree.
The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously
do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep--into the
evil."
"Yea, into the evil!" cried the youth. "How is it possible that thou hast
discovered my soul?"
Zarathustra smiled, and said: "Many a soul one will never discover, unless
one first invent it."
"Yea, into the evil!" cried the youth once more.
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
