| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: (II. Medina.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
ALIF LAM MIM. That is the book! there is no doubt therein; a guide
to the pious, who believe in the unseen, and are steadfast in
prayer, and of what we have given them expend in alms; who believe
in what is revealed to thee, and what was revealed before thee, and of
the hereafter they are sure. These are in guidance from their Lord,
and these are the prosperous. Verily, those who misbelieve, it is
the same to them if ye warn them or if ye warn them not, they will not
believe. God has set a seal upon their hearts and on their hearing;
and on their eyes is dimness, and for them is grievous woe. And
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: some brawling stream, with a broken, rocky bed, which the
shouldering cliffs and promontories on either side obliged them
frequently to cross and recross. For some miles they struggled
forward through these savage and darkly wooded defiles, when all
at once the whole landscape changed, as if by magic. The rude
mountains and rugged ravines softened into beautiful hills, and
intervening meadows, with rivulets winding through fresh herbage,
and sparkling and murmuring over gravelly beds, the whole forming
a verdant and pastoral scene, which derived additional charms
from being locked up in the bosom of such a hard-hearted region.
Emerging from the chain of Blue Mountains, they descended upon a
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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: between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious
tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the
measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just
what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the
community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last
exquisite touch. And now, because of some jealous whim of a
dissatisfied fool of a woman, as to whom he felt himself no more
to blame than any young man who has paid for good dinners by
good manners, he was to be deprived of the one complete
companionship he had ever known ....
His thoughts travelled on. He recalled the long dull spring in
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