| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 12: 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and He answered him; the just, the innocent man is a laughing-stock,
Job 12: 5 A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease, a thing ready for them whose foot slippeth.
Job 12: 6 The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure, in whatsoever God bringeth into their hand.
Job 12: 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee;
Job 12: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee;
Job 12: 9 Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job 12: 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.--
Job 12: 11 Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?
Job 12: 12 Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days?--
Job 12: 13 With Him is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
Job 12: 14 Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: Angelo, Titian; I will kiss the print of his feet in the dust,--but
make him my rival? Shame upon me! Ha! I am more a lover than I am a
painter. I shall have the strength to burn my Nut-girl ere I render my
last sigh; but suffer her to endure the glance of a man, a young man,
a painter?--No, no! I would kill on the morrow the man who polluted
her with a look! I would kill you,--you, my friend,--if you did not
worship her on your knees; and think you I would submit my idol to the
cold eyes and stupid criticisms of fools? Ah, love is a mystery! its
life is in the depths of the soul; it dies when a man says, even to
his friend, Here is she whom I love."
The old man seemed to renew his youth; his eyes had the brilliancy and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?
Why art thou patient, man? thou shouldst be mad;
And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
Thou wouldst be feed, I see, to make me sport;
York cannot speak unless he wear a crown.--
A crown for York!--and, lords, bow low to him.--
Hold you his hands whilst I do set it on.--
[Putting a paper crown on his head.]
Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king.
Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair;
And this is he was his adopted heir.--
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