| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising
materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of
Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an
audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically
recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity,
giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down
to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the
point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled
the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine
mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back
further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court
The Devil's Dictionary |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: At every step she slipped back a few inches, a very annoying feature of
climbing. When her legs seemed to grow dead Carley paused for a little
rest. The last of the ascent, over a few hundred yards of looser cinders,
taxed her remaining strength to the limit. She grew hot and wet and out of
breath. Her heart labored. An unreasonable antipathy seemed to attend her
efforts. Only her ridiculous vanity held her to this task. She wanted to
please Glenn, but not so earnestly that she would have kept on plodding up
this ghastly bare mound of cinders. Carley did not mind being a tenderfoot,
but she hated the thought of these Westerners considering her a weakling.
So she bore the pain of raw blisters and the miserable sensation of
staggering on under a leaden weight.
The Call of the Canyon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 8: 10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1_Samuel 8: 11 And he said: 'This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots.
1_Samuel 8: 12 And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
1_Samuel 8: 13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1_Samuel 8: 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1_Samuel 8: 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1_Samuel 8: 16 And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
1_Samuel 8: 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.
1_Samuel 8: 18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.'
The Tanach |
