| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Herdsman and the Lion
A HERDSMAN who had lost a bullock entreated the gods to bring him
the thief, and vowed he would sacrifice a goat to them. Just then
a Lion, his jaws dripping with bullock's blood, approached the
Herdsman.
"I thank you, good deities," said the Herdsman, continuing his
prayer, "for showing me the thief. And now if you will take him
away, I will stand another goat."
The Man and the Viper
A MAN finding a frozen Viper put it into his bosom.
"The coldness of the human heart," he said, with a grin, "will keep
Fantastic Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: trespassers; but those of us who are Muslims they strive after right
direction; and as for the trespassers they are fuel for hell."'
And if they will go right upon the way, we will irrigate them with
copious water to try them thereby; and whoso turns from the
remembrance of his Lord He will drive him to severe torment.
And (say) that the mosques are God's, and that ye should not call on
any one with God, and that when God's servant stood up to pray they
called out to him and well-nigh crowded upon him. Say, 'I only call
upon my Lord, and I join no one with Him.'
Say, 'Verily, I cannot control for you either harm, or right
direction.'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Such was the permission upon which he had now offered
her his hand. The affrighted Catherine, amidst all the
terrors of expectation, as she listened to this account,
could not but rejoice in the kind caution with which Henry
had saved her from the necessity of a conscientious rejection,
by engaging her faith before he mentioned the subject;
and as he proceeded to give the particulars, and explain
the motives of his father's conduct, her feelings soon
hardened into even a triumphant delight. The general had
had nothing to accuse her of, nothing to lay to her charge,
but her being the involuntary, unconscious object
Northanger Abbey |
