| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Judges 9: 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
Judges 9: 56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
Judges 9: 57 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads; and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
Judges 10: 1 And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Judges 10: 2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges 10: 3 And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges 10: 4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 10: 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
Judges 10: 6 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and served Him not.
Judges 10: 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He gave them over into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: her. Her little bed-sitting-room was like a lair, and she went
out from it into this vast, dun world, with its smoke-gray
houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray
or black, much as an animal goes out to seek food. She would
come back and write letters, carefully planned and written
letters, or read some book she had fetched from Mudie's--she had
invested a half-guinea with Mudie's--or sit over her fire and
think.
Slowly and reluctantly she came to realize that Vivie Warren was
what is called an "ideal." There were no such girls and no such
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: Bixiou had left.
"Oh!" cried the widow, "Philippe is right,--my father cursed me: I
have no right to-- Here, here is your money," she said to Madame
Descoings, adding Joseph's three hundred francs to the two hundred
found on Philippe. "Go and see if your brother does not need
something," she said to Joseph.
"Will you keep a promise made to a dying woman?" asked Madame
Descoings, who felt that her mind was failing her.
"Yes, aunt."
"Then swear to me to give your property to young Desroches for a life
annuity. My income ceases at my death; and from what you have just
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