| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: light bread.
NUM 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
NUM 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the
LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the
people.
NUM 21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and
set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is
bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
NUM 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: modesty as to his own capacity. And this overwork is not all the
effect of compulsion; for the average schoolmaster does not compel his
scholars to learn: he only scolds and punishes them if they do not,
which is quite a different thing, the net effect being that the school
prisoners need not learn unless they like. Nay, it is sometimes
remarked that the school dunce--meaning the one who does not
like--often turns out well afterwards, as if idleness were a sign of
ability and character. A much more sensible explanation is that the
so-called dunces are not exhausted before they begin the serious
business of life. It is said that boys will be boys; and one can only
add one wishes they would. Boys really want to be manly, and are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: "Quite so," I said; "it is very good of you. And now, since your fears
are groundless--thanks be to the heavens--sit down, if you will, and
tell me the story of how I came here."
She sat down, not, I noted, as a Kafir woman ordinarily does, in a kind
of kneeling position, but on a stool.
"You were carried into the kraal, Inkoosi," she said, "on a litter of
boughs. My heart stood still when I saw that litter coming; it was no
more heart; it was cold iron, because I thought the dead or injured man
was--" And she paused.
"Saduko?" I suggested.
"Not at all, Inkoosi--my father."
Child of Storm |
