| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: maimedness were great evils. Here men make them to a rejoicing."
God said, "Didst thou then think that love had need of eyes and hands!"
And I walked down the shining way with palms on either hand. I said to
God, "Ever since I was a little child and sat alone and cried, I have
dreamed of this land, and now I will not go away again. I will stay here
and shine." And I began to take off my garments, that I might shine as
others in that land; but when I looked down I saw my body gave no light. I
said to God, "How is it?"
God said, "Is there no dark blood in your heart; is it bitter against
none?"
And I said, "Yes--"; and I thought--"Now is the time when I will tell God,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: [Exit.]
ACT I. SCENE I.
Enter Brutus carried in a chair, Locrine, Camber, Albanact,
Corineius, Gwendoline, Assarachus, Debon, Thrasimachus.
BRUTUS.
Most loyal Lords and faithful followers,
That have with me, unworthy General,
Passed the greedy gulf of Ocean,
Leaving the confines of fair Italy,
Behold, your Brutus draweth nigh his end,
And I must leave you, though against my will.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: builded them, or in the hiding of holes and caverns. Thus, in
pursuit of virtue, they utterly denied themselves all fleshly
comfort and repose, submitting to a diet of uncooked herbs and
worts, or acorns, or hard dry bread, not merely saying good-bye
to delights in their quality, but, in very excess of temperance,
extending their zeal to limit even the quantity of enjoyment.
For even of those common and necessary meats they took only so
much as was sufficient to sustain life. Some of them continued
fasting the whole week, and partook of victuals only of a Sunday:
others thought of food twice only in the week: others ate every
other day, or daily at eventide, that is, took but a taste of
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