| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: which he read; he looked with amazement, but without envy, at courts
and kings, battles, men, and buildings. These daylight dreams made
dearer to him his precious flowers, his clouds, his sun, his granite
rocks. To attach him the more to his solitary existence, an angel
seemed to reveal to him the abysses of the moral world and the
terrible shocks of civilization. He felt that his soul, if torn by the
throng of men, would perish like a pearl dropped from the crown of a
princess into mud.
PART II
HOW THE SON DIED
CHAPTER IV
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: DEU 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
DEU 19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
DEU 20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of
them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt.
DEU 20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that
the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
DEU 20:3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: "Isn't that almost irreverent?" she asked. "Surely the righteous
must have their reward. And your father is good. See how much
he gives to all the established charities, how many things he has
founded.
He's always thinking of others, and planning for them. And
surely,
for us, he does everything. How well he has planned this trip
to Europe for me and the girls--the court-presentation at Berlin,
the season on the Riviera, the visits in England with the
Plumptons and
the Halverstones. He says Lord Halverstone has the finest
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