| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 16: 42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
1_Chronicles 16: 43 And all the people departed every man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.
1_Chronicles 17: 1 And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet: 'Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD dwelleth under curtains.'
1_Chronicles 17: 2 And Nathan said unto David: 'Do all that is in thy heart; for God is with thee.'
1_Chronicles 17: 3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying:
1_Chronicles 17: 4 'Go and tell David My servant: Thus saith the LORD: Thou shalt not build Me a house to dwell in;
1_Chronicles 17: 5 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
1_Chronicles 17: 6 In all places wherein I have walked among all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying: Why have ye not built Me a house of cedar?
1_Chronicles 17: 7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over 
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: not cumbersome. The shed for the storage of goods was empty, the
boats had disappeared, appropriated--generally in night-time--by
various citizens of Sambir in need of means of transport. During
a great flood the jetty of Lingard and Co. left the bank and
floated down the river, probably in search of more cheerful
surroundings; even the flock of geese--"the only geese on the
east coast"--departed somewhere, preferring the unknown dangers
of the bush to the desolation of their old home. As time went on
the grass grew over the black patch of ground where the old house
used to stand, and nothing remained to mark the place of the
dwelling that had sheltered Almayer's young hopes, his foolish
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: placed the bunch of burning straw to the barn in my presence.
Instead of running after him, I should have snatched the bunch of
burning straw and throwing it on the ground have stamped it out
with my feet; and then there would have been no fire."
"Ivan," said the old man, "death is fast approaching me, and
remember that you also will have to die. Who did this dreadful
thing? Whose is the sin?"
Ivan gazed at the noble face of his dying father and was silent.
His heart was too full for utterance.
"In the presence of God," the old man continued, "whose is the
sin?"
The Kreutzer Sonata |
