| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: spotty pocket handkerchiefs at
a penny three farthings.
They also sold sugar, and
snuff and galoshes.
In fact, although it was
such a small shop it sold
nearly everything--except a
few things that you want in
a hurry--like bootlaces, hair-
pins and mutton chops.
Ginger and Pickles were the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 4: 24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: 'Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.'
2_Kings 4: 25 So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.
2_Kings 4: 26 Run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her: Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child?' And she answered: 'It is well.'
2_Kings 4: 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said: 'Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told Me.'
2_Kings 4: 28 Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?'
2_Kings 4: 29 Then he said to Gehazi: 'Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.'
2_Kings 4: 30 And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, and followed her.
2_Kings 4: 31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: 'The 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to my distorted imagination, to be creeping stealthily upon me.
Unable longer to resist the temptation to escape this horrible
place I leaped quickly through the opening into the starlight
of a clear Arizona night. The crisp, fresh mountain air
outside the cave acted as an immediate tonic and I felt new
life and new courage coursing through me. Pausing upon the
brink of the ledge I upbraided myself for what now seemed
to me wholly unwarranted apprehension. I reasoned with
myself that I had lain helpless for many hours within the
cave, yet nothing had molested me, and my better judgment,
when permitted the direction of clear and logical reasoning,
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