| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Beaten by finger-tips of singing men,
When heard through unpathed groves and forest deeps
And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts
Of shepherd folk and spots divinely still.
Thus time draws forward each and everything
Little by little unto the midst of men,
And reason uplifts it to the shores of light.
These tunes would soothe and glad the minds of mortals
When sated with food,- for songs are welcome then.
And often, lounging with friends in the soft grass
Beside a river of water, underneath
Of The Nature of Things |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: nine-and-ninety flowing streams of water.
9 Thou from the curse didst free the mighty Waters, and as
their only
God didst watch and guard them.
O Indra, cherish evermore thy body with those which thou hast
won in
quelling Vrtra.
10 Heroic power and noble praise is Indra yea, the song worships
him
invoked of many.
Vrtra he quelled, and gave men room and freedom: gakra, victorious,
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: Styx, had been poured into his ears with the inimitable accent of
truth. The grave author contemplated for a moment that adorable woman
lying back in her easy-chair, her two hands pendant from its arms like
dewdrops from a rose-leaf, overcome by her own revelation, living over
again the sorrows of her life as she told them--in short an angel of
melancholy.
"And judge," she cried, suddenly lifting herself with a spring and
raising her hand, while lightning flashed from eyes where twenty
chaste years shone--"judge of the impression the love of a man like
Michel must have made upon me. But by some irony of fate--or was it
the hand of God?--well, he died; died in saving the life of, whom do
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