| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: for a people who misbelieve.
Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews, and the
Sabaeans, and the Christians, whosoever believes in God and the last
day, and does what is right, there is no fear for them, nor shall they
grieve.
We took a compact of the children of Israel, and we sent to them
apostles; every time there. came to them an apostle with what their
souls loved not, a part of them they did call liars and a part of them
they slew.
And they reckoned that there would be no disturbance; but they
were blind and deaf! and then God turned again towards them: and
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: Wilding acted upon some similar feelings in avoiding the duel? He
wondered; and when Richard dismissed Diana's challenge with a fatuous
laugh, it was Blake who took it up.
"You speak, ma'am," said he, "as if you knew that there were
reasons, and knew, too, what those reasons might be."
Diana looked at Ruth, as if for guidance before replying. But Ruth sat
calm and seemingly impassive, looking straight before her. She was,
indeed, indifferent how much Diana said, for in any case the matter
could not remain a secret long. Lady Horton, silent too and listening,
looked a question at her daughter.
And so, after a pause: "I know both," said Diana, her eyes straying
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli: support him; and therefore he who would keep a city accustomed to
freedom will hold it more easily by the means of its own citizens than
in any other way.
There are, for example, the Spartans and the Romans. The Spartans held
Athens and Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy, nevertheless they
lost them. The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia,
dismantled them, and did not lose them. They wished to hold Greece as
the Spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did
not succeed. So to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many
cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain
them otherwise than by ruining them. And he who becomes master of a
The Prince |
