| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: it had gone further than she had foreseen; and for all that no result
could better harmonize with her own ambitions and desires, for the
moment - under the first shock of that announcement - she felt guilty
and grew afraid.
"Ruth!" she cried, her voice a whisper of stupefaction. "Oh, I wish I
had come with you!"
"But you couldn't; you were faint." And then - recalling what had
passed - her mind was filled with sudden concern for Diana, even amid
her own sore troubles. "Are you quite yourself again, Diana?" she
inquired.
Diana answered almost fiercely, "I am quite well." And then, with a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: health or disease is the more terrible to a man? Had not many a man better
never get up from a sick bed? I should like to know whether you think that
life is always better than death. May not death often be the better of the
two?
LACHES: Yes certainly so in my opinion.
NICIAS: And do you think that the same things are terrible to those who
had better die, and to those who had better live?
LACHES: Certainly not.
NICIAS: And do you suppose that the physician or any other artist knows
this, or any one indeed, except he who is skilled in the grounds of fear
and hope? And him I call the courageous.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: But the Jews and the Christians say, 'We are the sons of God and His
beloved.' Say, 'Why then does He punish you for your sins? nay, ye are
mortals of those whom He has created! He pardons whom He pleases,
and punishes whom He pleases; for God's is the kingdom of the
heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, and unto Him the
journey is.
O people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you, explaining to you
the interval of apostles; lest ye say, 'There came not to us a
herald of glad tidings nor a warner.' But there has come to you now
a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and God is mighty over all!
When Moses said to his people, 'O my people! remember the favour
The Koran |
