| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 11: 16 For thou shalt forget thy misery; thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away;
Job 11: 17 And thy life shall be clearer than the noonday; though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
Job 11: 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt look about thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety.
Job 11: 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
Job 11: 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.
Job 12: 1 Then Job answered and said:
Job 12: 2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 12: 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 12: 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and He answered him; the just, the innocent man is a laughing-stock,
Job 12: 5 A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease, a thing ready for them whose foot slippeth.
Job 12: 6 The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure, in whatsoever God bringeth into their hand.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: as I said before, no scheme for the reconstruction of society. But
the modern world has schemes. It proposes to do away with poverty
and the suffering that it entails. It desires to get rid of pain,
and the suffering that pain entails. It trusts to Socialism and to
Science as its methods. What it aims at is an Individualism
expressing itself through joy. This Individualism will be larger,
fuller, lovelier than any Individualism has ever been. Pain is not
the ultimate mode of perfection. It is merely provisional and a
protest. It has reference to wrong, unhealthy, unjust
surroundings. When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice
are removed, it will have no further place. It will have done its
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: terrible shock to him, but we are friends, and I have not got his
friendship on false pretences.
Emotional forces, as I say somewhere in INTENTIONS, are as limited
in extent and duration as the forces of physical energy. The
little cup that is made to hold so much can hold so much and no
more, though all the purple vats of Burgundy be filled with wine to
the brim, and the treaders stand knee-deep in the gathered grapes
of the stony vineyards of Spain. There is no error more common
than that of thinking that those who are the causes or occasions of
great tragedies share in the feelings suitable to the tragic mood:
no error more fatal than expecting it of them. The martyr in his
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