| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 16: 11 Thou makest me to know the path of life; in Thy presence is fulness of joy, in Thy right hand bliss for evermore.
Psalms 17: 1 A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer from lips without deceit.
Psalms 17: 2 Let my judgment come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold equity.
Psalms 17: 3 Thou hast tried my heart, Thou hast visited it in the night; Thou hast tested me, and Thou findest not that I had a thought which should not pass my mouth.
Psalms 17: 4 As for the doings of men, by the word of Thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.
Psalms 17: 5 My steps have held fast to Thy paths, my feet have not slipped.
Psalms 17: 6 As for me, I call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me, hear my speech.
Psalms 17: 7 Make passing great Thy mercies, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand from assailants them that take refuge in Thee.
Psalms 17: 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me in the shadow of Thy wings,
Psalms 17: 9 From the wicked that oppress, my deadly enemies, that compass me about.
Psalms 17: 10 Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: "I can't see the sails very well," the helmsman answered me, in
strange, quavering tones.
Was she close enough? Already she was, I won't say in the shadow
of the land, but in the very blackness of it, already swallowed up
as it were, gone too close to be recalled, gone from me altogether.
"Give the mate a call," I said to the young man who stood at my
elbow as still as death. "And turn all hands up."
My tone had a borrowed loudness reverberated from the height of the
land. Several voices cried out together: "We are all on deck,
sir."
Then stillness again, with the great shadow gliding closer,
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: taken the rooms one by one as they fell vacant. In his own room he had
changed nothing; the furniture which I knew so well sixteen years ago
looked the same as ever; it might have been kept under a glass case.
Gobseck's faithful old portress, with her husband, a pensioner, who
sat in the entry while she was upstairs, was still his housekeeper and
charwoman, and now in addition his sick-nurse. In spite of his
feebleness, Gobseck saw his clients himself as heretofore, and
received sums of money; his affairs had been so simplified, that he
only needed to send his pensioner out now and again on an errand, and
could carry on business in his bed.
"After the treaty, by which France recognized the Haytian Republic,
Gobseck |
