| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: heart of God Himself?--What am I?--The humble interpreter of a single
line left to us by the greatest of the Apostles--a single line out of
thousands all equally full of light. Before us, Saint Paul said, '/In
Deo vivimus movemur et sumus/.' In our day, less believing and more
learned, or better instructed and more sceptical, we should ask the
Apostle, 'To what end this perpetual motion? Whither leads this life
divided into zones? Wherefore an intelligence that begins with the
obscure perfection of marble and proceeds from sphere to sphere up to
man, up to the angel, up to God? Where is the Fount, where is the
ocean, if life, attaining to God across worlds and stars, through
Matter and Spirit, has to come down again to some other goal?'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: responsibility. I become tender towards them. I am impelled
to take care of them. I want to ease them off, to reassure
them, to make them stop hurting at any cost. I don't see why
it should be the weak and sickly and seamy side of people
that grips me most, but it is. I don't know why it should be
their failures that gives them power over me, but it is. I
told you of this girl, this mistress of mine, who is ill just
now. SHE'S got me in that way; she's got me tremendously."
"You did not speak of her yesterday with any morbid excess of
pity," the doctor was constrained to remark.
"I abused her very probably. I forget exactly what I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: the land of Canaan.
NUM 26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah,
the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of
Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
NUM 26:21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
NUM 26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were
numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
NUM 26:23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the
family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
NUM 26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the
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