| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning
darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The
God of hosts, is his name.
AMO 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a
lamentation, O house of Israel.
AMO 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is
forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
AMO 5:3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a
thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred
shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
AMO 5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me,
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: branch stopped Hiram short and made him lift a warning hand.
At last we got down to the narrow bench which separated the canyon-slope
from the deep cut. It was level and roughly strewn with boulders. Here we
took to all fours and crawled. It was easy to move here without noise, for
the ground was rocky and hard, and there was no brush.
Suddenly I fairly bumped into the hunter. Looking up, I saw that he had
halted only a few feet from the edge of the gorge where I had climbed out
in my escape. He was listening. There was not a sound save the dull roar of
rushing water.
Hiram slid forward a little, and rose cautiously to look over. I did the
same. When I saw the cave and the spring-hole I felt a catch in my throat.
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: standard of humanity above its own mean average; it may forget that
the old ruling class, in spite of all its defects and crimes, did at
least pretend to represent something higher than man's necessary
wants, plus the greed of amassing money; never meeting (at least in
the country districts) any one wiser or more refined than an
official or a priest drawn from the peasant class, it may lose the
belief that any standard higher than that is needed; and, all but
forgetting the very existence of civilisation, sink contented into a
dead level of intellectual mediocrity and moral barbarism, crying,
"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
A nation in such a temper will surely be taken at its word. Where
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