| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 3: 11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Numbers 3: 12 'And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine;
Numbers 3: 13 for all the first-born are Mine: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto Me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast, Mine they shall be: I am the LORD.'
Numbers 3: 14 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying:
Numbers 3: 15 'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.'
Numbers 3: 16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Numbers 3: 17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers 3: 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Numbers 3: 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: lighted below, Captain Whalley, considering the dis-
cretion of his course, met, as it were incidentally, the
thought of death. He pushed it aside with dislike and
contempt. He almost laughed at it; and in the un-
quenchable vitality of his age only thought with a kind
of exultation how little he needed to keep body and soul
together. Not a bad investment for the poor woman
this solid carcass of her father. And for the rest--in
case of anything--the agreement should be clear: the
whole five hundred to be paid back to her integrally
within three months. Integrally. Every penny. He
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: the rocks but lost further down, he resolved to guard himself from
their visits by placing a barrier at the entrance of his hermitage.
In spite of his diligence, and the strength which the fear of being
devoured asleep gave him, he was unable to cut the palm in pieces,
though he succeeded in cutting it down. At eventide the king of the
desert fell; the sound of its fall resounded far and wide, like a sigh
in the solitude; the soldier shuddered as though he had heard some
voice predicting woe.
But like an heir who does not long bewail a deceased relative, he tore
off from this beautiful tree the tall broad green leaves which are its
poetic adornment, and used them to mend the mat on which he was to
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