| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: therewith a little price! and woe to them for what their hands have
written, and woe to them for what they gain!
And then they say, 'Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number
of days.' Say, 'Have ye taken a covenant with God?' but God breaks not
His covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know?
Yea! whoso gains an evil gain, and is encompassed by his sins, those
are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye! But
such as act aright, those are the fellows of Paradise, and they
shall dwell therein for aye!
And when we took from the children of Israel a covenant, saying,
'Serve ye none but God, and to your two parents show kindness, and
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: he had fled he did not know, or try to know. When he
could flee no longer the knowledge that he had reached
his limit was hidden from him in the unconsciousness of
utter exhaustion.
And thus it was that Achmet Zek, the Arab, found him.
Achmet's followers were for running a spear through the
body of their hereditary enemy; but Achmet would have
it otherwise. First he would question the Belgian.
It were easier to question a man first and kill him
afterward, than kill him first and then question him.
So he had Lieutenant Albert Werper carried to his own
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Who leaving share in furrow come to see
The glories of our King: but these, my men,
(Your city moved so weirdly in the mist)
Doubt if the King be King at all, or come
From Fairyland; and whether this be built
By magic, and by fairy Kings and Queens;
Or whether there be any city at all,
Or all a vision: and this music now
Hath scared them both, but tell thou these the truth.'
Then that old Seer made answer playing on him
And saying, 'Son, I have seen the good ship sail
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