| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 39: 20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.
Genesis 39: 21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39: 22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
Genesis 39: 23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
Genesis 40: 1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
Genesis 40: 2 And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis 40: 3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40: 4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph to be with them, and he ministered unto them; and they continued a season in ward.
Genesis 40: 5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Genesis 40: 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: divorce: both tend to obscure the moral issue."
Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden's mood than
Van Alstyne's after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter
confined himself to generalities his listener's nerves were in
control. Happily Van Alstyne prided himself on his summing up of
social aspects, and with Selden for audience was eager to show
the sureness of his touch. Mrs. Fisher lived in an East side
street near the Park, and as the two men walked down Fifth Avenue
the new architectural developments of that versatile thoroughfare
invited Van Alstyne's comment.
"That Greiner house, now--a typical rung in the social ladder!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: scrambled out.
"Oh, Mother, Mother!" said
Mittens--
"Oh! Mother, Mother, there has
been an old man rat in the dairy--a
dreadful 'normous big rat, Mother;
and he's stolen a pat of butter and the
rolling pin."
Ribby and Tabitha looked at one
another.
"A rolling pin and butter! Oh, my
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