| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: in prayer and make the hearts of men yearn towards them, and provide
them with fruits, haply they may give thanks.
'O our Lord! verily, Thou knowest what we hide and what we
publish; for naught is hid from God in the earth or in the sky. Praise
to God who hath bestowed on me, notwithstanding my old age, Ishmael
and Isaac!- verily, my Lord surely hears prayer.
'O my Lord! make me steadfast in prayer, and of my seed likewise!
O our Lord! and accept my prayer! O our Lord! pardon me and my parents
and the believers on the reckoning day!'
So think not God careless of what the unjust do; He only respites
them until the day on which all eyes shall stare!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: But if you seek, reader, rather for pleasure than for wisdom, you
can find it in such studies, pure and undefiled.
Happy, truly, is the naturalist. He has no time for melancholy
dreams. The earth becomes to him transparent; everywhere he sees
significancies, harmonies, laws, chains of cause and effect
endlessly interlinked, which draw him out of the narrow sphere of
self-interest and self-pleasing, into a pure and wholesome region
of solemn joy and wonder. He goes up some Snowdon valley; to him
it is a solemn spot (though unnoticed by his companions), where the
stag's-horn clubmoss ceases to straggle across the turf, and the
tufted alpine clubmoss takes its place: for he is now in a new
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 16: 47 (17:12) And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
Numbers 16: 48 (17:13) And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Numbers 16: 49 (17:14) Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers 16: 50 (17:15) And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stayed.
Numbers 17: 1 (17:16) And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Numbers 17: 2 (17:17) 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; thou shalt write every man's name upon his rod.
Numbers 17: 3 (17:18) And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers' houses.
Numbers 17: 4 (17:19) And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Numbers 17: 5 (17:20) And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur aga 
The Tanach |
