| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: lies. Tell them then these tales- haply they may reflect.
Evil is the likeness of a people who say our signs are lies;
themselves it is they wrong!
We have created for hell many of the ginn and of mankind; they
have hearts and they discern not therewith; they have eyes and they
see not therewith; they have ears and they hear not therewith; they
are like cattle, nay, they go more astray! these it is who care not.
But God's are the good names; call on Him then thereby, and leave
those who pervert His names; they shall be rewarded for that which
they have done.
And of those whom we have created is a nation who are guided in
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: We could control them. If you will come to me
(For now I spy a danger), I entreat you
To bring but five-and-twenty. To no more
Will I give place or notice.
Lear. I gave you all-
Reg. And in good time you gave it!
Lear. Made you my guardians, my depositaries;
But kept a reservation to be followed
With such a number. What, must I come to you
With five-and-twenty, Regan? Said you so?
Reg. And speak't again my lord. No more with me.
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: well as I can, relying upon your candour, and yet distinctly
feeling that I would rather face a battery than recall to my mind
the odious recollections of last night."
He paused a second time, and then perceiving that Lord Woodville
remained silent and in an attitude of attention, he commenced,
though not without obvious reluctance, the history of his night's
adventures in the Tapestried Chamber.
"I undressed and went to bed so soon as your lordship left me
yesterday evening; but the wood in the chimney, which nearly
fronted my bed, blazed brightly and cheerfully, and, aided by a
hundred exciting recollections of my childhood and youth, which
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