| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: than thy father.
JOB 15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any
secret thing with thee?
JOB 15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes
wink at,
JOB 15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such
words go out of thy mouth?
JOB 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of
a woman, that he should be righteous?
JOB 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens
are not clean in his sight.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: destitute. Thus, for the enthusiastic Poussin, the old man became by
sudden transfiguration Art itself,--art with all its secrets, its
transports, and its dreams.
"Yes, my dear Porbus," said Frenhofer, speaking half in reverie, "I
have never yet beheld a perfect woman; a body whose outlines were
faultless and whose flesh-tints--Ah! where lives she?" he cried,
interrupting his own words; "where lives the lost Venus of the
ancients, so long sought for, whose scattered beauty we snatch by
glimpses? Oh! to see for a moment, a single moment, the divine
completed nature,--the ideal,--I would give my all of fortune. Yes; I
would search thee out, celestial Beauty! in thy farthest sphere. Like
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: "Captain Montressor." This name was immediately overruled by the band,
and "Piggy" substituted as a compliment to the awful and insatiate
appetite of its owner.
Thus did the Texas border receive the most spectacular brigand that
ever rode its chaparral.
For the next three months Bud King conducted business as usual,
escaping encounters with law officers and being content with
reasonable profits. The band ran off some very good companies of
horses from the ranges, and a few bunches of fine cattle which they
got safely across the Rio Grande and disposed of to fair advantage.
Often the band would ride into the little villages and Mexican
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