| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
United States Declaration of Independence |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: To trust the mock'ry of unquiet slumbers.
To fly the boar before the boar pursues
Were to incense the boar to follow us
And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
Go, bid thy master rise and come to me;
And we will both together to the Tower,
Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.
MESSENGER. I'll go, my lord, and tell him what you say.
Exit
Enter CATESBY
CATESBY. Many good morrows to my noble lord!
Richard III |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 5: 18 But even in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jeremiah 5: 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD our God done all these things unto us?' then shalt Thou say unto them: 'Like as ye have forsaken Me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'
Jeremiah 5: 20 Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and announce it in Judah, saying:
Jeremiah 5: 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that have eyes, and see not, that have ears, and hear not:
Jeremiah 5: 22 Fear ye not Me? saith the LORD; will ye not tremble at My presence? who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it cannot pass; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
Jeremiah 5: 23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted, and gone.
Jeremiah 5: 24 Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
Jeremiah 5: 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
The Tanach |
