| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: "The manner of life you have chosen is reflected, I suppose, in
your ideas. I have too much respect or contempt, or both ...I
respect your past and despise your present ...that I was far
from the interpretation you put on my words."
Anna sighed and bowed her head.
"Though indeed I fail to comprehend how, with the independence
you show," he went on, getting hot, " announcing your infidelity
to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it,
apparently--you can see anything reprehensible in performing a
wife's duties in relation to your husband."
"Alexey Alexandrovitch! What is it you want of me?"
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZE 45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five
and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
EZE 45:13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of
an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an
ephah of an homer of barley:
EZE 45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall
offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten
baths; for ten baths are an homer:
EZE 45:15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the
fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering,
and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: might place me in the light of a weak-minded, superstitious fool,
who suffered his own imagination to delude and bewilder him; but
you have known me in childhood and youth, and will not suspect me
of having adopted in manhood the feelings and frailties from
which my early years were free." Here he paused, and his friend
replied,--
"Do not doubt my perfect confidence in the truth of your
communication, however strange it may be," replied Lord
Woodville. "I know your firmness of disposition too well, to
suspect you could be made the object of imposition, and am aware
that your honour and your friendship will equally deter you from
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