| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 55: 16 (55:17) As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Psalms 55: 17 (55:18) Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I complain, and moan; and He hath heard my voice.
Psalms 55: 18 (55:19) He hath redeemed my soul in peace so that none came nigh me; for they were many that strove with me.
Psalms 55: 19 (55:20) God shall hear, and humble them, even He that is enthroned of old, Selah, such as have no changes, and fear not God.
Psalms 55: 20 (55:21) He hath put forth his hands against them that were at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
Psalms 55: 21 (55:22) Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords.
Psalms 55: 22 (55:23) Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He will sustain thee; He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Psalms 55: 23 (55:24) But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee.
Psalms 56: 1 (56:1) For the Leader; upon Jonath-elem-rehokim. A Psalm of David; Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. (56:2) Be gracious unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up; all the day he fighting oppresseth me.
Psalms 56: 2 (56:3) They that lie in wait for me would swallow me up all the day; for they are many that fight against me, O Most High,
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Well, naval affairs?
ALCIBIADES: No.
SOCRATES: You mean that we should have recourse to sailors about them?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then what affairs? And who do them?
ALCIBIADES: The affairs which occupy Athenian gentlemen.
SOCRATES: And when you speak of gentlemen, do you mean the wise or the
unwise?
ALCIBIADES: The wise.
SOCRATES: And a man is good in respect of that in which he is wise?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: every carving, the least detail of the sculpture was dipped in silver.
The sunlight kindled fires in the stained windows, their rich colors
sent out glowing sparks of light. The shafts began to tremble, the
capitals were gently shaken. A light shudder as of delight ran through
the building, the stones were loosened in their setting, the wall-
spaces swayed with graceful caution. Here and there a ponderous pier
moved as solemnly as a dowager when she condescends to complete a
quadrille at the close of a ball. A few slender and graceful columns,
their heads adorned with wreaths of trefoil, began to laugh and dance
here and there. Some of the pointed arches dashed at the tall lancet
windows, who, like ladies of the Middle Ages, wore the armorial
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