| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: which the events of the morning had plunged us. Admire for a long time
some pretty dove with iridescent colors, perched on a swaying branch
above a spring, and you will give a cry of pain when you see a hawk
swooping down upon her, driving its steel claws into her breast, and
bearing her away with murderous rapidity. When we had advanced a step
or two into an open space which lay before what seemed to be a grotto,
a sort of esplanade placed a hundred feet above the ocean, and
protected from its fury by buttresses of rock, we suddenly experienced
an electrical shudder, something resembling the shock of a sudden
noise awaking us in the dead of night.
We saw, sitting on a vast granite boulder, a man who looked at us. His
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: or more, and they believed; and we gave them enjoyment for a season.
Ask them, 'Has thy Lord daughters while they have sons? or have we
created the angels females while they were witnesses?' is it not of
their lie that they say, 'God has begotten?' verily, they are liars.
Has he preferred daughters to sons? what ails you? how ye judge!
will ye not be mindful, or have ye obvious authority? then bring
your Book if ye do speak the truth.
And they made him to be related to the ginns, while the ginns know
that they shall be arraigned; celebrated be God's praises from what
they attribute!-save God's sincere servants.
'Verily, ye and what ye worship shall not try any one concerning
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 3 Come hitherward to us, O Food, auspicious with auspicious
help,
Health-bringing, not unkind, a dear and guileless friend.
4 These juices which, O Food, are thine throughout the regions
are
diffused.
like winds they have their place in heaven.
5 These gifts of thine, O Food, O Food most sweet to taste,
These savours of thy juices work like creatures that have mighty
necks.
6 In thee, O Food, is set the spirit of great Gods.
The Rig Veda |
