| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: is pleased with!
Verily, those who believe not in the hereafter do surely name the
angels with female names!-but they have no knowledge thereof; they
do but follow suspicion, and, verily, suspicion shall not avail
against the truth at all!
But turn aside from him who turns his back upon our remembrance
and desires naught but this world's life! This is their sum of
knowledge; verily, thy Lord knows best who has erred from His way, and
He knows best who is guided!
God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, that He
may reward those who do evil for what they have done; and may reward
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: by the reading! Chancellor, where is this fellow lodged?'
'He was committed to the Flag Tower,' replied Greisengesang, 'in the
Gamiani apartment.'
'Lead me to him,' said the Prince; and then, a thought striking him,
'Was it for that,' he asked, 'that I found so many sentries in the
garden?'
'Your Highness, I am unaware,' answered Greisengesang, true to his
policy. 'The disposition of the guards is a matter distinct from my
functions.'
Otto turned upon the old man fiercely, but ere he had time to speak,
Gotthold touched him on the arm. He swallowed his wrath with a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: of the flowers he had been sending her.
She would never let him give her anything else.
"Are you busy this morning, Hilda?" he asked
as he sat down, his hat and gloves in his hand.
"Very. I've been up and about three hours,
working at my part. We open in February, you know."
"Well, then you've worked enough. And so
have I. I've seen all my men, my packing is done,
and I go up to Liverpool this evening.
But this morning we are going to have
a holiday. What do you say to a drive out to
Alexander's Bridge |
