| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: of those who are sure. And when the night overshadowed him he saw a
star and said, 'This is my Lord;' but when it set he said, 'I love not
those that set.' And when he saw the moon beginning to rise he said,
'This is my Lord;' but when it set he said, 'If God my Lord guides
me not I shall surely be of the people who err.' And when he saw the
sun beginning to rise he said, 'This is my Lord, this is greatest of
all;' but when it set he said, 'O my people! verily, I am clear of
what ye associate with God; verily, I have turned my face to him who
originated the heaven and the earth, as a 'Hanif, and I am not of
the idolaters.' And his people disputed with him;- he said, 'Do ye
dispute with me concerning God, when He has guided me? but I fear
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: That the Knight of the Night-gear was first in the field.
The feast it was nigh, and the mass it was nigher,
When before the fair Princess low looted a squire,
And deliver'd a garment unseemly to view,
With sword-cut and spear-thrust, all hack'd and pierc'd through;
All rent and all tatter'd, all clotted with blood,
With foam of the horses, with dust, and with mud;
Not the point of that lady's small finger, I ween,
Could have rested on spot was unsullied and clean.
"This token my master, Sir Thomas a Kent,
Restores to the Princess of fair Benevent;
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