| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: The panels were open, and would have offered an easy access
to the interior of the Nautilus.
At six o'clock in the morning of the 8th January I went up
on to the platform. The dawn was breaking. The island soon
showed itself through the dissipating fogs, first the shore,
then the summits.
The natives were there, more numerous than on the day before--
five or six hundred perhaps--some of them, profiting by the low water,
had come on to the coral, at less than two cable-lengths from the Nautilus.
I distinguished them easily; they were true Papuans, with athletic figures,
men of good race, large high foreheads, large, but not broad and flat,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: The calm and certain stay of garden-life,
Far sunk from all the thunderous roar of strife.
There is about the small secluded place
A garnish of old times; a certain grace
Of pensive memories lays about the braes:
The old chestnuts gossip tales of bygone days.
Here, where some wandering preacher, blest Lazil,
Perhaps, or Peden, on the middle hill
Had made his secret church, in rain or snow,
He cheers the chosen residue from woe.
All night the doors stood open, come who might,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 44: 6 (44:7) For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me.
Psalms 44: 7 (44:8) But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
Psalms 44: 8 (44:9) In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah
Psalms 44: 9 (44:10) Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.
Psalms 44: 10 (44:11) Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.
Psalms 44: 11 (44:12) Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44: 12 (44:13) Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.
Psalms 44: 13 (44:14) Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 44: 14 (44:15) Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44: 15 (44:16) All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Psalms 44: 16 (44:17) For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
The Tanach |
