| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: sharply defined on his cheek, that they seemed rather prominent. These
singular eyes had in them something indescribably domineering and
piercing, which took possession of the soul by a grave and thoughtful
look, a look as bright and lucid as that of a serpent or a bird, but
which held one fascinated and crushed by the swift communication of
some tremendous sorrow, or of some super-human power.
Every feature was in harmony with this eye of lead and of fire, at
once rigid and flashing, stern and calm. While in this eagle eye
earthly emotions seemed in some sort extinct, the lean, parched face
also bore traces of unhappy passions and great deeds done. The nose,
which was narrow and aquiline, was so long that it seemed to hang on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: unexpected succour to the Christians, but discomfiting the
infidels when they seemed most secure of victory. But even the
iron frame of Coeur de Lion could not support without injury the
alternations of the unwholesome climate, joined to ceaseless
exertions of body and mind. He became afflicted with one of
those slow and wasting fevers peculiar to Asia, and in despite of
his great strength and still greater courage, grew first unfit to
mount on horseback, and then unable to attend the councils of war
which were from time to time held by the Crusaders. It was
difficult to say whether this state of personal inactivity was
rendered more galling or more endurable to the English monarch by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: For each one of you have we made a law and a pathway; and had God
pleased He would have made you one nation, but He will surely try
you concerning that which He has brought you. Be ye therefore
emulous in good deeds; to God is your return altogether, and He will
let you know concerning that wherein ye do dispute.
Wherefore judge thou between them by what God has revealed, and
follow not their lusts; but beware lest they mislead thee from part of
what God has revealed to thee; yet if they turn back, then know that
God wishes to fall on them for some sins of theirs,- verily, many
men are evildoers.
Is it the judgment of the Ignorance they crave? but who is better
The Koran |
