| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOS 18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of
the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe
of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east,
which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
JOS 18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that
went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and
describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you
before the LORD in Shiloh.
JOS 18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it
by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the
host at Shiloh.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Consuesse enim deos immortales, quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum
doleant, quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum
res et diuturniorem impunitatem concedere. Cum ea ita sint, tamen, si
obsides ab iis sibi dentur, uti ea quae polliceantur facturos intellegat,
et si Haeduis de iniuriis quas ipsis sociisque eorum intulerint, item si
Allobrogibus satis faciunt, sese cum iis pacem esse facturum. Divico
respondit: ita Helvetios a maioribus suis institutos esse uti obsides
accipere, non dare, consuerint; eius rem populum Romanum esse testem. Hoc
responso dato discessit.
Postero die castra ex eo loco movent. Idem facit Caesar equitatumque
omnem, ad numerum quattuor milium, quem ex omni provincia et Haeduis atque
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a
sentence: -- "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the
world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be
inferred!"
Nothing was more remarkable than the change which took place,
almost immediately after Mr. Dimmesdale's death, in the
appearance and demeanour of the old man known as Roger
Chillingworth. All his strength and energy -- all his vital and
intellectual force -- seemed at once to desert him, insomuch that
he positively withered up, shrivelled away and almost vanished
The Scarlet Letter |
