| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 78: 69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.
Psalms 78: 70 He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78: 71 From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
Psalms 78: 72 So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 79: 1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.
Psalms 79: 2 They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants to be food unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79: 3 They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them.
Psalms 79: 4 We are become a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79: 5 How long, O LORD, wilt Thou be angry for ever? How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79: 6 Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon Thy name.
Psalms 79: 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: If any spark of human rests in thee,
Forbear, be gone, tender the suite of me.
ENVY.
Why so I will; forbearance shall be such
As treble death shall cross thee with despite,
And make thee mourn where most thou joyest,
Turning thy mirth into a deadly dole,
Whirling thy pleasures with a peal of death,
And drench thy methods in a sea of blood:
This will I do, thus shall I bear with thee;
And more to vex thee with a deeper spite,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: drawing bridle at the palace-doors of German princes; queens
of song and dance had followed him like sheep and paid his
tailor's bills. And to behold him now, seeking small loans
with plaintive condescension, sponging for breakfast on an
art-student of nineteen, a fallen Don Juan who had neglected
to die at the propitious hour, had a colour of romance for
young imaginations. His name and his bright past, seen
through the prism of whispered gossip, had gained him the
nickname of THE ADMIRAL.
Dick found him one day at the receipt of custom, rapidly
painting a pair of hens and a cock in a little water-colour
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