| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: lovers. He saw that love was the first secret of the world for
which the wise men had been looking, and that it was only through
love that one could approach either the heart of the leper or the
feet of God.
And above all, Christ is the most supreme of individualists.
Humility, like the artistic, acceptance of all experiences, is
merely a mode of manifestation. It is man's soul that Christ is
always looking for. He calls it 'God's Kingdom,' and finds it in
every one. He compares it to little things, to a tiny seed, to a
handful of leaven, to a pearl. That is because one realises one's
soul only by getting rid of all alien passions, all acquired
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 16: 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2_Kings 16: 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2_Kings 17: 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years.
2_Kings 17: 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2_Kings 17: 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him presents.
2_Kings 17: 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
2_Kings 17: 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2_Kings 17: 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2_Kings 17: 7 And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: heaven?"
He was silent, and they walked on a few yards
without exchanging a word. Finally she said: "I will
tell you--but where, where, where? One can't be alone
for a minute in that great seminary of a house, with all
the doors wide open, and always a servant bringing
tea, or a log for the fire, or the newspaper! Is there
nowhere in an American house where one may be by
one's self? You're so shy, and yet you're so public. I
always feel as if I were in the convent again--or on the
stage, before a dreadfully polite audience that never
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