| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Krsanu, holdeth fast the sweet.
3 May those first freshest drops of Soma juice effused flow
on, their
way to bring us mighty strength in kine.
Beauteous as serpents, worthy to be looked upon, they whom
each sacred
gift and all our prayers have pleased.
4 May that much-lauded Indu, with a heart inclined to us,
well-knowing, fight against our enemies.
He who hath brought the germ beside the Strong One's seat moves
onward
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
The Economist 1
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: fair; it had hastened the separation of the great and little noblesse,
of the aristocratic and bourgeois social elements, which had been
united for a little space by the heavy weight of Napoleonic rule.
After the pressure was removed, there followed that sudden revival of
class divisions which did so much harm to the country.
The most national of all sentiments in France is vanity. The wounded
vanity of the many induced a thirst for Equality; though, as the most
ardent innovator will some day discover, Equality is an impossibility.
The Royalists pricked the Liberals in the most sensitive spots, and
this happened specially in the provinces, where either party accused
the other of unspeakable atrocities. In those days the blackest deeds
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