| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 4: 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4: 23 Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 4: 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs 4: 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Proverbs 4: 26 Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Proverbs 4: 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.
Proverbs 5: 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;
Proverbs 5: 2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5: 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 5: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5: 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: she would love to travel. But her mother would not
understand their wanting to do things so differently.
"As if the mere `differently' didn't account for it!"
the wooer insisted.
"Newland! You're so original!" she exulted.
His heart sank, for he saw that he was saying all the
things that young men in the same situation were
expected to say, and that she was making the answers
that instinct and tradition taught her to make--even to
the point of calling him original.
"Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: red rose growing upon a bush in the garden of the palace. It was a clever
idea, and a trick Glinda did not suspect; so several precious hours were
spent in a vain search for Mombi.
As sundown approached the Sorceress realized she had been defeated by the
superior cunning of the aged witch; so she gave the command to her people to
march out of the city and back to their tents.
The Scarecrow and his comrades happened to be
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searching in the garden of the palace just then, and they turned with
disappointment to obey Glinda's command. But before they left the garden the
Tin Woodman, who was fond of flowers, chanced to espy a big red rose growing
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