| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ecclesiastes 7: 21 Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;
Ecclesiastes 7: 22 for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7: 23 All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7: 24 That which is is far off, and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes 7: 25 I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;
Ecclesiastes 7: 26 and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes 7: 27 Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account;
Ecclesiastes 7: 28 which yet my soul sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ecclesiastes 7: 29 Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes 8: 1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: walls of the old prisons, but there they are, witnessing to the
poor buried instincts that struggled up towards the light. That
god of joyous expression our poor fathers ignorantly sought, our
freedom has declared to us....
In the old days the common ambition of every simple soul was to
possess a little property, a patch of land, a house uncontrolled
by others, an 'independence' as the English used to put it. And
what made this desire for freedom and prosperity so strong, was
very evidently the dream of self-expression, of doing something
with it, of playing with it, of making a personal delightfulness,
a distinctiveness. Property was never more than a means to an
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: the fool--clumsily over-plying the simpleton with drink
till he had killed him. The shadow of murder indubitably
hung over the thing. And then--the crass witlessness
of telegraphing! Already, doubtless, the police of
Edinborough were talking over the wires with Scotland Yard.
A reference to a death in Edinborough, in a telegram
from Newcastle--it was incredible that this should escape
the eye of the authorities. Any minute might bring
a detective through that door there--following into the
Board Room with his implacable scent the clue of blood.
Thorpe's fancy pictured this detective as a momentarily
The Market-Place |
