| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Leviticus 13: 32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin,
Leviticus 13: 33 then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more.
Leviticus 13: 34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus 13: 35 But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing,
Leviticus 13: 36 then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair: he is unclean.
Leviticus 13: 37 But if the scall stay in its appearance, and black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus 13: 38 And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
Leviticus 13: 39 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin: he is clean.
Leviticus 13: 40 And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: But lo! how many kinds, and what their names,
There is no telling, nor doth it boot to tell;
Who lists to know it, he too would list to learn
How many sand-grains are by Zephyr tossed
On Libya's plain, or wot, when Eurus falls
With fury on the ships, how many waves
Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea.
Not that all soils can all things bear alike.
Willows by water-courses have their birth,
Alders in miry fens; on rocky heights
The barren mountain-ashes; on the shore
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: incredible; they could not understand it, they did not know
how to take hold of it, it approximately paralyzed speech.
At length it was decided that the erring child must be taken to
her mother, who was ill, and who ought to know what had happened.
Helen begged, besought, implored that she might be spared this
further disgrace, and that her mother might be spared the grief
and pain of it; but this could not be: duty required this sacrifice,
duty takes precedence of all things, nothing can absolve one from
a duty, with a duty no compromise is possible.
Helen still begged, and said the sin was her own, her mother had
had no hand in it--why must she be made to suffer for it?
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