| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 29: 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;
Job 29: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Job 29: 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 29: 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29: 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29: 16 I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
Job 29: 17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 29: 18 Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;
Job 29: 19 My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;
Job 29: 20 My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'
Job 29: 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: aloud like a battle-horse.
'ET VOUS PRETENDEZ MOURIR DANS CETTE ESPECE DE CROYANCE?' he
demanded; and there is no type used by mortal printers large enough
to qualify his accent.
I humbly indicated that I had no design of changing.
But he could not away with such a monstrous attitude. 'No, no,' he
cried; 'you must change. You have come here, God has led you here,
and you must embrace the opportunity.'
I made a slip in policy; I appealed to the family affections,
though I was speaking to a priest and a soldier, two classes of men
circumstantially divorced from the kind and homely ties of life.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: itself.
62. 1. Tao has of all things the most honoured place.
No treasures give good men so rich a grace;
Bad men it guards, and doth their ill efface.
2. (Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds
can raise their performer above others. Even men who are not good are
not abandoned by it.
3. Therefore when the sovereign occupies his place as the Son of
Heaven, and he has appointed his three ducal ministers, though (a
prince) were to send in a round symbol-of-rank large enough to fill
both the hands, and that as the precursor of the team of horses (in
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