| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: CHAPTER XIX.
As meets a rock a thousand waves, so Inisfail met Lochlin.
OSSIAN.
The trumpets and bagpipes, those clamorous harbingers of blood
and death, at once united in the signal for onset, which was
replied to by the cry of more than two thousand warriors, and the
echoes of the mountain glens behind them. Divided into three
bodies, or columns, the Highland followers of Montrose poured
from the defiles which had hitherto concealed them from their
enemies, and rushed with the utmost determination upon the
Campbells, who waited their charge with the greatest firmness.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: fall again, to take his way to the church. He entered it alone; he
had declined, in a happy manner he possessed of being able to
decline effectively, the company of his servant or of a nurse. He
knew now perfectly what these good people thought; they had
discovered his clandestine connexion, the magnet that had drawn him
for so many years, and doubtless attached a significance of their
own to the odd words they had repeated to him. The nameless lady
was the clandestine connexion - a fact nothing could have made
clearer than his indecent haste to rejoin her. He sank on his
knees before his altar while his head fell over on his hands. His
weakness, his life's weariness overtook him. It seemed to him he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 82: 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for Thou shalt possess all nations.
Psalms 83: 1 (83:1) A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. (83:2) O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalms 83: 2 (83:3) For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms 83: 3 (83:4) They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured ones.
Psalms 83: 4 (83:5) They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'
Psalms 83: 5 (83:6) For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant;
Psalms 83: 6 (83:7) The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
Psalms 83: 7 (83:8) Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalms 83: 8 (83:9) Assyria also is joined with them; they have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah
Psalms 83: 9 (83:10) Do Thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;
Psalms 83: 10 (83:11) Who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.
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