| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 13: 3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD; all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 13: 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Numbers 13: 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
Numbers 13: 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers 13: 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Numbers 13: 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
Numbers 13: 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
Numbers 13: 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
Numbers 13: 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Numbers 13: 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Numbers 13: 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: the student is reading, in the other the Chinaman's.
If he belong to the middle class, as soon as his schooling is over
he is set to learn his father's trade. To undertake to learn any
trade but his father's would strike the family as simply preposterous.
Why should he adopt another line of business? And, if he did, what
other business should he adopt? Is his father's occupation not
already there, a part of the existing order of things; and is he not
the son of his father and heir therefore of the paternal skill?
Not that such inherited aptness is recognized scientifically; it is
simply taken for granted instinctively. It is but a halfhearted
intuition, however, for the possibility of an inheritance from the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: glittered in the sun like jewelry. It gave him pleasure to contemplate
the supple, fine outlines of her form, the whiteness of her belly, the
graceful pose of her head. But it was especially when she was playing
that he felt most pleasure in looking at her; the agility and youthful
lightness of her movements were a continual surprise to him; he
wondered at the supple way in which she jumped and climbed, washed
herself and arranged her fur, crouched down and prepared to spring.
However rapid her spring might be, however slippery the stone she was
on, she would always stop short at the word "Mignonne."
One day, in a bright midday sun, an enormous bird coursed through the
air. The man left his panther to look at his new guest; but after
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