| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: blood-weeds, wild cane, and marsh grasses. For, at a hasty
glance, the general appearance of this marsh verdure is vague
enough, as it ranges away towards the sand, to convey the idea of
amphibious vegetation,--a primitive flora as yet undecided
whether to retain marine habits and forms, or to assume
terrestrial ones;--and the occasional inspection of surprising
shapes might strengthen this fancy. Queer flat-lying and
many-branching things, which resemble sea-weeds in juiciness and
color and consistency, crackle under your feet from time to time;
the moist and weighty air seems heated rather from below than
from above,--less by the sun than by the radiation of a cooling
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: merciful of the merciful.'
And when they opened their goods they found their chattels
restored to them. Said they, 'O our father! What more can we crave?
Here are our chattels restored to us, and we shall guard our
brother, and shall have an additional measure beside that- a small
measure.'
He said, 'I will by no means send him with you until you give me a
compact from God that ye will surely bring him to me, unless ye be
encompassed.'
So when they had given him their compact he said, 'God over what
ye say has charge.'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: four-eyed, upon thy happy pathway.
Draw nigh then to the gracious-minded Fathers where they rejoice
in
company with Yama.
11 And those two dogs of thine, Yama, the watchers, four-eyed,
who
look on men and guard the pathway,-
Entrust this man, O King, to their protection, and with prosperity
and
health endow him.
12 Dark-hued, insatiate, with distended nostrils, Yama's two
The Rig Veda |
