The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: of it except God. But those who are well grounded in knowledge say,
'We believe in it; it is all from our Lord; but none will remember
save those who possess minds.
'O Lord! pervert not our hearts again when Thou hast guided them,
and grant us mercy from Thee, for Thou art He who grants. O Lord! Thou
shalt gather together men unto the day wherein is no doubt. Verily,
God will not depart from His promise.'
Verily, those who misbelieve, their wealth shall not help them,
nor their children, against God at all; and they it is who are the
fuel of the fire.
As was the wont of Pharaoh's people, and those before them, they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
In a Garden
The world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down
Painting with fire the spires and the windows
In the elm-shaded town.
Beyond the calm Connecticut the hills lie
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: side.
Desiree lay close beside me; I could not even turn my head to
see if she, too, saw, but kept my eyes, as though fascinated, on
that silent black line approaching through the darkness.
"Will they leap now--now--now?" I asked myself with every beat
of my pulse.
It could not be much longer--they were now so close that each
black, tense form was in clear outline not fifty feet away.
Chapter XXIII.
WE ARE TWO.
Whether I would have been able to rouse myself to action
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