| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
NUM 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab
hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,
Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
NUM 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I
defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
NUM 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I
behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned
among the nations.
NUM 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth
part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: p. 105.]
Within this first line of conquering settlers towns are
built, and vast States founded. In 1790 there were only a few
thousand pioneers sprinkled along the valleys of the Mississippi;
and at the present day these valleys contain as many inhabitants
as were to be found in the whole Union in 1790. Their population
amounts to nearly 4,000,000. *k The city of Washington was
founded in 1800, in the very centre of the Union; but such are
the changes which have taken place, that it now stands at one of
the extremities; and the delegates of the most remote Western
States are already obliged to perform a journey as long as that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: spider-webs. For a moment he was minded to run, and then thought
of the ravine, and turned back. He ran aside once to dodge one drifting
terror, and then he was swiftly clambering down the precipitous sides,
and out of the touch of the gale.
There under the lee of the dry torrent's steeper banks he might
crouch, and watch these strange, grey masses pass and pass in safety
till the wind fell, and it became possible to escape. And there
for a long time he crouched, watching the strange, grey, ragged
masses trail their streamers across his narrowed sky.
Once a stray spider fell into the ravine close beside him--a full
foot it measured from leg to leg, and its body was half a man's hand--
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