| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And digs like a demented beast.
Tall as a guardsman, pale as the east at dawn,
Who strides in strange apparel on the lawn?
Rails for his breakfast? routs his vassals out
(Like boys escaped from school) with song and shout?
Kind and unkind, his Maker's final freak,
Part we deride the child, part dread the antique!
See where his gang, like frogs, among the dew
Crouch at their duty, an unquiet crew;
Adjust their staring kilts; and their swift eyes
Turn still to him who sits to supervise.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: the rabble of the Isosceles did the rest of the business
for themselves. Surprised, leader-less, attacked in front
by invisible foes, and finding egress cut off by the Convicts
behind them, they at once -- after their manner -- lost all presence
of mind, and raised the cry of "treachery". This sealed their fate.
Every Isosceles now saw and felt a foe in every other.
In half an hour not one of that vast multitude was living;
and the fragments of seven score thousand of the Criminal Class
slain by one another's angles attested the triumph of Order.
The Circles delayed not to push their victory to the uttermost.
The Working Men they spared but decimated. The Militia of
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 10: 8 The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10: 9 He that walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be found out.
Proverbs 10: 10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; and a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs 10: 11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked concealeth violence.
Proverbs 10: 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.
Proverbs 10: 13 In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs 10: 14 Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is an imminent ruin.
Proverbs 10: 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 10: 16 The wages of the righteous is life; the increase of the wicked is sin.
Proverbs 10: 17 He is in the way of life that heedeth instruction; but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
Proverbs 10: 18 He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
The Tanach |
