| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 22: 19 The righteous saw it, and were glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn:
Job 22: 20 'Surely their substance is cut off, and their abundance the fire hath consumed.'
Job 22: 21 Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace; thereby shall thine increase be good.
Job 22: 22 Receive, I pray thee, instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in thy heart.
Job 22: 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up--if thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents,
Job 22: 24 And lay thy treasure in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
Job 22: 25 And the Almighty be thy treasure, and precious silver unto thee;
Job 22: 26 Then surely shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Job 22: 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
Job 22: 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, and light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22: 29 When they cast thee down, thou shalt say: 'There is lifting up'; for the humble person He saveth.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: were the first to know the results of the preliminary inquiry, which
would soon be made public. The following is a brief epitome of the
facts on which the indictment found against the prisoner was based.
Jean-Francois Tascheron was the son of a small farmer burdened with a
family, who lived in the village of Montegnac.
Twenty years before this crime, which was famous throughout the
Limousin, the canton of Montegnac was known for its evil ways. The
saying was proverbial in Limoges that out of one hundred criminals in
the department fifty belonged to the arrondissement of Montegnac.
Since 1816, however, two years after a priest named Bonnet was sent
there as rector, it had lost its bad reputation, and the inhabitants
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: on the declaration. It must, if I were not here. I wish I were
anywhere else."
Anxious to separate herself from them as far as she could, she soon
afterwards took possession of a narrow footpath, a little raised
on one side of the lane, leaving them together in the main road.
But she had not been there two minutes when she found that Harriet's
habits of dependence and imitation were bringing her up too, and that,
in short, they would both be soon after her. This would not do;
she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration
to make in the lacing of her half-boot, and stooping down in complete
occupation of the footpath, begged them to have the goodness to walk on,
Emma |
