The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: NUM 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto
Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
NUM 15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what
should be done to him.
NUM 15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to
death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the
camp.
NUM 15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
NUM 15:37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: being galloped middlin' quick through the woods; but there's no
road there. I reckon it's one of Gleason's colts loose. Shall I see
you up to the house, Miss Una?'
'Gracious, no! thank you. What's going to hurt me?' said Una,
and she put her stool away behind the oak, and strolled home
through the gaps that old Hobden kept open for her.
Brookland Road
I was very well pleased with what I knowed,
I reckoned myself no fool -
Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road
That turned me back to school.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: wonders which I cannot expect you to believe in,--
such as a spring of warm water in which you could
bathe and from which you could reach to dip up a
cup of carbonated water on the right hand, or cast
a fly into a trout stream, on the left. At length we
entered a high meadow in the shape of a maltese
cross, with pine slopes about it, and springs of water
welling in little humps of green. There the long
pine-needles were extraordinarily thick and the pine-
cones exceptionally large. The former we scraped
together to the depth of three feet for a bed in the
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