| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 4: 24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamim, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
1_Chronicles 4: 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
1_Chronicles 4: 26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
1_Chronicles 4: 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
1_Chronicles 4: 28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual;
1_Chronicles 4: 29 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad;
1_Chronicles 4: 30 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag;
1_Chronicles 4: 31 and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
1_Chronicles 4: 32 And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
1_Chronicles 4: 33 and all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
1_Chronicles 4: 34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah;
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: And do they esteem a slave of more value than you who are their son? And
do they entrust their property to him rather than to you? and allow him to
do what he likes, when they prohibit you? Answer me now: Are you your own
master, or do they not even allow that?
Nay, he said; of course they do not allow it.
Then you have a master?
Yes, my tutor; there he is.
And is he a slave?
To be sure; he is our slave, he replied.
Surely, I said, this is a strange thing, that a free man should be governed
by a slave. And what does he do with you?
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: Gertrude Chiltern. I hate her. I hate her now more than ever.
LORD GORING. Because you have brought a real tragedy into her life,
I suppose.
MRS. CHEVELEY. [With a sneer.] Oh, there is only one real tragedy
in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and
her future invariably her husband.
LORD GORING. Lady Chiltern knows nothing of the kind of life to
which you are alluding.
MRS. CHEVELEY. A woman whose size in gloves is seven and three-
quarters never knows much about anything. You know Gertrude has
always worn seven and three-quarters? That is one of the reasons why
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