| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: JDG 6:26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this
rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a
burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
JDG 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD
had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's
household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that
he did it by night.
JDG 6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,
behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that
was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was
built.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: time he possessed as much as thirty thousand francs, and he came out
at last without a sou. In the Rue de la Lune he found Finot waiting
for him with a request for one of his short articles. Lucien so far
forgot himself, that he complained.
"Oh, it is not all rosy," returned Finot. "You made your right-about-
face in such a way that you were bound to lose the support of the
Liberal press, and the Liberals are far stronger in print than all the
Ministerialist and Royalist papers put together. A man should never
leave one camp for another until he has made a comfortable berth for
himself, by way of consolation for the losses that he must expect; and
in any case, a prudent politician will see his friends first, and give
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: that you actually block the way to his ambition. That is enough to
prove to you that the side by which you have imposed yourself on that
family--who have never sincerely liked or desired you--is now
completely battered down and dismantled."
"But to have done all that which you claim with such pretension, who
are you?" demanded la Peyrade.
"I shall not say that you are very inquisitive, for I intend to answer
your question later; but for the present let us continue, if you
please, the autopsy of your existence, dead to-day, but which I
propose to resuscitate gloriously. You are twenty-eight years old, and
you have begun a career in which I shall not allow you to make another
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