| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 26: 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
Numbers 26: 8 And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.
Numbers 26: 9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, the elect of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD;
Numbers 26: 10 and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign.
Numbers 26: 11 Notwithstanding the sons of Korah died not.
Numbers 26: 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
Numbers 26: 13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Numbers 26: 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 26: 15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
Numbers 26: 16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: That I made you into someone else. . . . Oh! . . . Well, there are
worse ways.
But why aim it at my feet -- unless you fear you may be sorry. . . .
There are many days ahead of you."
"I do not see those days."
"I can see them. Granted even I am wrong, there are the children.
And are they to praise their father for his insight if we die?
Do you hear them? Do you hear them overhead -- the children -- singing?
Do you hear them? Do you hear the children?"
"Damn the children!"
"Why?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: 2. It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it skilfully
overcomes; not to speak, and yet it is skilful in (obtaining a reply;
does not call, and yet men come to it of themselves. Its
demonstrations are quiet, and yet its plans are skilful and effective.
The meshes of the net of Heaven are large; far apart, but letting
nothing escape.
74. 1. The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to (try to)
frighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death,
and I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death,
who would dare to do wrong?
2. There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He who
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