| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship
immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
JOH 21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore:
but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
JOH 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They
answered him, No.
JOH 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the
ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able
to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
JOH 21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It
is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: "Here is April come!" said she, "I get quite anxious about you.
June will soon be here."
"But I have never fixed on June or any other month--merely looked
forward to the summer in general."
"But have you really heard of nothing?"
"I have not even made any inquiry; I do not wish to make any yet."
"Oh! my dear, we cannot begin too early; you are not aware
of the difficulty of procuring exactly the desirable thing."
"I not aware!" said Jane, shaking her head; "dear Mrs. Elton,
who can have thought of it as I have done?"
"But you have not seen so much of the world as I have. You do not
Emma |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: of his alliance with us and the other allies, to give up the Hellenes in
Asia, whom the Lacedaemonians had previously handed over to him, he
thinking that we should refuse, and that then he might have a pretence for
withdrawing from us. About the other allies he was mistaken, for the
Corinthians and Argives and Boeotians, and the other states, were quite
willing to let them go, and swore and covenanted, that, if he would pay
them money, they would make over to him the Hellenes of the continent, and
we alone refused to give them up and swear. Such was the natural nobility
of this city, so sound and healthy was the spirit of freedom among us, and
the instinctive dislike of the barbarian, because we are pure Hellenes,
having no admixture of barbarism in us. For we are not like many others,
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