| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 80: 2 (80:3) Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, and come to save us.
Psalms 80: 3 (80:4) O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80: 4 (80:5) O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?
Psalms 80: 5 (80:6) Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalms 80: 6 (80:7) Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.
Psalms 80: 7 (80:8) O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80: 8 (80:9) Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.
Psalms 80: 9 (80:10) Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.
Psalms 80: 10 (80:11) The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.
Psalms 80: 11 (80:12) She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.
Psalms 80: 12 (80:13) Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: was the greatest of Mr. Paraday's admirers, she devoured everything
he wrote. And then he read like an angel. Mrs. Wimbush reminded
me that he had again and again given her, Mrs. Wimbush, the
privilege of listening to him.
I looked at her a moment. "What has he read to you?" I crudely
enquired.
For a moment too she met my eyes, and for the fraction of a moment
she hesitated and coloured. "Oh all sorts of things!"
I wondered if this were an imperfect recollection or only a perfect
fib, and she quite understood my unuttered comment on her measure
of such things. But if she could forget Neil Paraday's beauties
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Througll which it enters to surprise her heart;
Who, overcome by doubt and bloodless fear,
With cold-pale weakness numbs each feeling part;
Like soldiers, when their captain once doth yield,
They basely fly and dare not stay the field.
Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy,
Till, cheering up her senses sore dismay'd, 896
She tells them 'tis a causeless fantasy,
And childish error, that they are afraid;
Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more:
And with that word she spied the hunted boar;
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