| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: spake unto him the words of Balak.
NUM 22:8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring
you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab
abode with Balaam.
NUM 22:9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with
thee?
NUM 22:10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
NUM 22:11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth
the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be
able to overcome them, and drive them out.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: In proportion as other expectations were torn from her,
this tender one had been fondly clung to, and knit into her heart.
The books she had obtained, were soon devoured, by one who
had no other resource to escape from sorrow, and the feverish dreams
of ideal wretchedness or felicity, which equally weaken the
intoxicated sensibility. Writing was then the only alternative,
and she wrote some rhapsodies descriptive of the state of her mind;
but the events of her past life pressing on her, she resolved
circumstantially to relate them, with the sentiments that experience,
and more matured reason, would naturally suggest. They might
perhaps instruct her daughter, and shield her from the misery,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: skin; the veins and muscles were perfectly visible. She must have been
very handsome; but at this moment I was startled into an indescribable
emotion at the sight. Never, said those who wrapped her in her shroud,
had any living creature been so emaciated and lived. In short, it was
awful to behold! Sickness so consumed that woman, that she was no more
than a phantom. Her lips, which were pale violet, seemed to me not to
move when she spoke to me.
" 'Though my profession has familiarized me with such spectacles, by
calling me not infrequently to the bedside of the dying to record
their last wishes, I confess that families in tears and the agonies I
have seen were as nothing in comparison with this lonely and silent
La Grande Breteche |
