| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: thing, and not only when I am present with you.
GAL 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you,
GAL 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice;
for I stand in doubt of you.
GAL 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear
the law?
GAL 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a
bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
GAL 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but
he of the freewoman was by promise.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: germs of flattering hopes. Beaux, wits, and fops, men whose sentiments
are fed by sucking their canes, those of a great name, or a great
fame, those of the highest or the lowest rank in her own world, they
all blanch before her. She has conquered the right to converse as long
and as often as she chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable,
without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish
women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in
order to gratify their fancies later; but to suppose any such
reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be to calumniate her.
I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I
know how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: To greet her, wasting his forgotten heart,
As with the mother he had never known,
In gambols; for her fresh and innocent eyes
Had such a star of morning in their blue,
That all neglected places of the field
Broke into nature's music when they saw her.
Low was her voice, but won mysterious way
Thro' the seal'd ear to which a louder one
Was all but silence--free of alms her hand--
The hand that robed your cottage-walls with flowers
Has often toil'd to clothe your little ones;
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