| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: wax, and polished her little tin
spoons.
When it was all beautifully
neat and clean, she gave a
party to five other little mice,
without Mr. Jackson.
He smelt the party and
came up the bank, but he
could not squeeze in at the
door.
So they handed him out acorn cupfuls of honeydew through the window,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 15: 15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15: 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.'
Genesis 15: 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15: 18 In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates;
Genesis 15: 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Genesis 15: 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Genesis 15: 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'
Genesis 16: 1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16: 2 And Sarai said unto Abram: 'Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded up through her.' And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16: 3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to
insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my
back was turned.
I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to
Fortunato, bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway
that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding
staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We
came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on
the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.
The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap
jingled as he strode.
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