| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 4: 20 Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4: 21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
Job 5: 1 Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
Job 5: 2 For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5: 3 I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.
Job 5: 4 His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.
Job 5: 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
Job 5: 6 For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5: 7 But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5: 8 But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;
Job 5: 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: the animating sunbeams which awaken the heart to songs of gaiety.
Leaving this point, to notice another prominent consideration,
which is generally one of great moment and of vital importance.
Invariably she is firm and steady in all her pursuits and aims.
There is required a combination of forces and extreme opposition to
drive her from her position; she takes her stand, not to be moved by
the sound of Apollo's lyre or the curved bow of pleasure.
Firm and true to what she undertakes, and that which she requires
by her own aggrandizement, and regards as being within the strict rules
of propriety, she will remain stable and unflinching to the last.
A more genuine principle is not to be found in the most determined,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: him. He feels the good mud with his bare toes. Anon comes
another, saying he will put onions, and carrots, and sugar-cane
in such and such places. They meet as boats adrift meet, and
each rolls his eye at the other under the big blue turban.
The old Mugger sees and hears. Each calls the other "Brother,"
and they go to mark out the boundaries of the new land.
The Mugger hurries with them from point to point, shuffling very
low through the mud. Now they begin to quarrel! Now they say
hot words! Now they pull turbans! Now they lift up their lathis
(clubs), and, at last, one falls backward into the mud, and the
other runs away. When he comes back the dispute is settled, as
The Second Jungle Book |
