| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: Prince Alexis, that, however brutally he treated his serfs, he
allowed no other man to oppress them. All they had and were--their
services, bodies, lives--belonged to him; hence injustice towards
them was disrespect towards their lord. Under the fear which his
barbarity inspired lurked a brute-like attachment, kept alive by
the recognition of this quality.
One day it was reported to him that Gregor, a merchant in the
bazaar at Kinesma, had cheated the wife of one of his serfs in the
purchase of a piece of cloth. Mounting his horse, he rode at once
to Gregor's booth, called for the cloth, and sent the entire piece
to the woman, in the merchant's name, as a confessed act of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 7: 9 (7:10) Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that Thou wouldest establish the righteous; for the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.
Psalms 7: 10 (7:11) My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms 7: 11 (7:12) God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation every day:
Psalms 7: 12 (7:13) If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;
Psalms 7: 13 (7:14) He hath also prepared for him the weapons of death, yea, His arrows which He made sharp.
Psalms 7: 14 (7:15) Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.
Psalms 7: 15 (7:16) He hath digged a pit, and hollowed it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 7: 16 (7:17) His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalms 7: 17 (7:18) I will give thanks unto the LORD according to His righteousness; and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalms 8: 1 (8:1) For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David. (8:2) O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is Thy name in all the earth! whose majesty is rehearsed above the heavens.
Psalms 8: 2 (8:3) Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is no longer, as it should
be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to avoid General
Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief. So
energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an
unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our
enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. General
Buxhowden was all but attacked and captured by a superior enemy
force as a result of one of these maneuvers that enabled us to
escape him. Buxhowden pursues us- we scuttle. He hardly crosses the
river to our side before we recross to the other. At last our enemy.
Buxhowden, catches us and attacks. Both generals are angry, and the
War and Peace |
