| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done
that which was our duty to do.
LUK 17:11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed
through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
LUK 17:12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten
men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
LUK 17:13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us.
LUK 17:14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves
unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were
cleansed.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: never a fish to sell, but only a shoe of a horse in his creel, and
it rusty.
"Now," said the Poor Thing, "do so and so, and you shall find a
wife and I a mother."
It befell that the Earl's daughter came forth to go into the Kirk
upon her prayers; and when she saw the poor man stand in the market
with only the shoe of a horse, and it rusty, it came in her mind it
should be a thing of price.
"What is that?" quoth she.
"It is a shoe of a horse," said the man.
"And what is the use of it?" quoth the Earl's daughter.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: feeding the young; and even at times seizing any tempting morsel which the
young or the hen may have discovered.
Among mammals the male form tends to be slightly larger than the female,
though not always (the female whale, for instance, being larger than the
male); the male also tends to be more pugnacious and less careful of the
young; though to this rule also there are exceptions. In the case of the
South African mierkat, for instance, the female is generally more combative
and more difficult to tame than the male; and it is the males who from the
moment of birth watch over the young with the most passionate and tender
solicitude, keeping them warm under their persons, carrying them to places
of safety in their mouths, and feeding them till full grown; and this they
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