| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: the Elysian world, of which she has had such bright
dreams. How fairy-like does everything appear to
her enchanted vision! Each new scene is more charming
than the last. But after a while she finds that
beneath this goodly exterior, all is vanity, the
flattery which once charmed her soul, now grates
harshly upon her ear; the ball-room has lost its
charms; and with wasted health and imbittered heart,
she turns away with the conviction that earthly
pleasures cannot satisfy the longings of the soul!"
And so forth and so on. There was a buzz of grati-
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in various occupations. To one of these chambers my guard
escorted me, and before leaving they chained me to a
side wall. There were other humans similarly chained.
Upon a long table lay a victim even as I was ushered
into the room. Several Mahars stood about the poor
creature holding him down so that he could not move.
Another, grasping a sharp knife with her three-toed
fore foot, was laying open the victim's chest and abdomen.
No anesthetic had been administered and the shrieks
and groans of the tortured man were terrible to hear.
This, indeed, was vivisection with a vengeance.
At the Earth's Core |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Kings 11: 2 of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel: 'Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods'; Solomon did cleave unto these in love.
1_Kings 11: 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
1_Kings 11: 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1_Kings 11: 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites.
1_Kings 11: 6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
1_Kings 11: 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestation of the children of Ammon.
1_Kings 11: 8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.
1_Kings 11: 9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,
1_Kings 11: 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
The Tanach |
