| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: He does not ask you for (all) your property; if He were to ask you
for it and to press you, ye would be niggardly, and he would bring
your malice out.
Here are ye called upon to expend in God's cause, and among you
are some who are niggardly; and he who is niggardly is but niggardly
against his own soul: but God is rich and ye are poor, and if ye
turn your backs He will substitute another people in your stead,
then they will not be like you.
THE CHAPTER OF VICTORY
(XLVIII. Medinah.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Plank Sidewalks that Kings were blood-smeared oppressors and hell-
bound loafers."
"My dear sir," said the Distinguished Advocate of Republican
Institutions, without removing his eyes from the horizon, "you
wander away into the strangest irrelevancies! I spoke of Kings in
the abstract."
The Pugilist's Diet
THE Trainer of a Pugilist consulted a Physician regarding the
champion's diet.
"Beef-steaks are too tender," said the Physician; "have his meat
cut from the neck of a bull."
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: talking loudly together. It stopped at the Burnells' gate.
Stanley was half-way up the path before he saw Linda. "Is that you,
darling?"
"Yes, Stanley."
He leapt across the flower-bed and seized her in his arms. She was
enfolded in that familiar, eager, strong embrace.
"Forgive me, darling, forgive me," stammered Stanley, and he put his hand
under her chin and lifted her face to him.
"Forgive you?" smiled Linda. "But whatever for?"
"Good God! You can't have forgotten," cried Stanley Burnell. "I've
thought of nothing else all day. I've had the hell of a day. I made up my
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