| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: These are the signs of God, we recite them to thee in truth, for,
verily, thou art of those who are sent.
These apostles have we preferred one of them above another. Of
them is one to whom God spake; and we have raised some of them
degrees; and we have given Jesus the son of Mary manifest signs, and
strengthened him by the Holy Spirit. And, did God please, those who
came after them would not have fought after there came to them
manifest signs. But they did disagree, and of them are some who
believe, and of them some who misbelieve, but, did God please, they
would not have fought, for God does what He will.
O ye who believe! expend in alms of what we have bestowed upon
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: interred where it had been found.
And, several days before, Captain Hotard, of the relief-boat
Estelle Brousseaux, had found, drifting in the open Gulf
(latitude 26 degrees 43 minutes; longitude 88 degrees 17
minutes),--the corpse of a fair-haired woman, clinging to a
table. The body was disfigured beyond recognition: even the
slender bones of the hands had been stripped by the nibs of the
sea-birds-except one finger, the third of the left, which seemed
to have been protected by a ring of gold, as by a charm. Graven
within the plain yellow circlet was a date,--"JUILLET--1851" ;
and the names,--"ADELE + JULIEN,"--separated by a cross. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The sweet, the deep, the full repose.
O leave me not! for ever be
Thus, more than life itself to me!
Yes, close beside thee let me kneel--
Give me thy hand, that I may feel
The friend so true--so tried--so dear,
My heart's own chosen--indeed is near;
And check me not--this hour divine
Belongs to me--is fully mine.
'Tis thy own hearth thou sitt'st beside,
After long absence--wandering wide;
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