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I’m not a fake person; I’m carefully and genuinely handcrafted.
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Dot Hutchison (The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1))
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It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.
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Suzanne Finnamore (Split: A Memoir of Divorce)
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Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley’s Candies. Though her handcrafted confections—rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds—are singularly effective, the business of selling them is costing her the everyday joys of her family, and her belief in her own precious gifts.
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Sarah Addison Allen (First Frost (Waverley Family, #2))
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I dropped a kiss on her shoulder and wondered if anyone had ever done this before. Wondered if any fucker out there had this with his girl. A woman who was handcrafted for him. Perfection, forged in hell
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Tillie Cole (Sick Fux)
“
I’ve made some things for you, Constant Reader; you see them laid out before you in the moonlight. But before you look at the little handcrafted treasures I have for sale, let’s talk about them for a bit, shall we? It won’t take long. Here, sit down beside me. And do come a little closer. I don’t bite. Except... we’ve known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that’s not entirely true. Is it?
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Stephen King (The Bazaar of Bad Dreams)
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In the quiet, unexpressed, unwrestled-through disappointments, Satan is handcrafting his most damning weapons against us and those we love. It’s his subtle seduction to get us alone with our thoughts so he can slip in whispers that will develop our disappointments into destructive choices.
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Lysa TerKeurst (It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered)
“
The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth such as baskets of fruit or vegetables given to you unexpectedly, nature handcrafts, or a bunch of flowers picked from a beloved garden. These are all signs that the gifts not only came from the giver but from Mother Earth herself. - Fairy of the woods
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Sarah Rajkotwala (The Year Of Talking To Plants: The plants and fairies talk in their own words)
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She took out her wand— yes, you heard me— handcrafted according to her Pottermore-assigned wand as 14.5 inches long, made of vine wood with unicorn hair core. I’d asked her what her craftsman had used instead of unicorn hair, because unicorns weren’t real. She’d just laughed at me like I was silly and naïve. So I left it alone.
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Juliette Cross (Wolf Gone Wild (Stay A Spell #1))
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The Bible says, “We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.”1 Our English word poem comes from the Greek word translated “workmanship.” You are God’s handcrafted work of art. You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterpiece.
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Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?)
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There’s no better time to become the human being you know you can be and handcraft the life of your most exuberant desires than now.
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Robin Sharma (The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World)
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People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the centre of their heads
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Terry Pratchett
“
People don’t live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the centre of their heads.
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Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent (Discworld, #22))
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Because enchantment, by my definition, has nothing to do with fantasy, or escapism, or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world; a profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life. The enchanted life presented here is one which is intuitive, embraces wonder and fully engages the creative imagination – but it is also deeply embodied, ecological, grounded in place and community. It flourishes on work that has heart and meaning; it respects the instinctive knowledge and playfulness of children. It understands the myths we live by; thrives on poetry, song and dance. It loves the folkloric, the handcrafted, the practice of traditional skills. It respects wild things, recognises the wisdom of the crow, seeks out the medicine of plants. It rummages and roots on the wild edges, but comes home to an enchanted home and garden. It is engaged with the small, the local, the ethical; enchanted living is slow living.
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Sharon Blackie (The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday)
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She opened her eyes once again and let them drift across the scene laid out before her like a page from a storybook. Inky blackness hung above them as though painted in impasto in an opaque Prussian Blue. The impression it gave was of a sky hand-crafted out of felt with a pearl of a moon and a generous dusting of diamonds sprinkled on for the stars. A night dreams were made of.
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Ella J. Fraser (Waking Up In London)
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Many of us can maybe sometimes imagine sounds, or have some musical ideas. But to have them consistenly building whole works, and to have the means of transforming something that's in your ear into handcrafted written notes that give back what you heard and what you felt - I find it just utterly miraculous.
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Christian Tetzlaff
“
You were not mass-produced like a Toyota. You are an original. Not a copy! You were handcrafted and handmade by God, who took his time to create you, making you “wonderfully complex.” You’re unique. You’re special. You’re one of a kind. There is no one else quite like you, dead or alive, in the whole world. Nor will there ever be.
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Pedro Okoro (The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!)
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Vagina is the epitome of resilience.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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I went to the mosque, went to the church, nowhere did I find a trace of divinity. Then I came and stood in front of you, all that is divine manifested in font of me.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
star charts this time, but rendered in calligraphy and gold and silver leaf, stunning juxtapositions of the technological future and the hand-crafted past.
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M.C.A. Hogarth (Even The Wingless (Princes' Game #1))
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I'm not a fake person. I'm carefully and genuinely hand-crafted.
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Dot Hutchinson
“
If the change you cause doesn't cause change, then what is the point of it all anyway!
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
In a world stolen by whites, anything non-white is inferior.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Causing goodness must be the cause of goodness.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Binary paths belong in bygone past, all things civilized are non-binary.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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God never grows two people the same way. God is a hand-crafter, not a mass-producer.
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John Ortberg (The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You)
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It’s nice to submerge yourself in someone else’s world, to luxuriate in the handcrafted details and admire the false ceilings.
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Taylor Adams (The Last Word)
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Life is like a handcrafted tapestry and every conscious entity in the entire universe is seated at the loom, tying their knots of experience into the overall design.
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Jann Burner (The Journal of A Perimeter Man, Vol. IV, Metaphor Bridge)
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In front of the reviewing stand, she presented Joseph with a twenty-six-star, handcrafted silk American flag, sewn for the occasion by the ladies of Nauvoo. Then the officers, the honored guests, and the twenty members of the Legion marching band assembled for the procession to the temple site. Joseph had assigned special places on the reviewing stand to the Sauk Indian chief Keokuk and his entourage, who had crossed over from Iowa to partake in the festivities.
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Alex Beam (American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church)
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Ro is the kind of optimist who was disappointed to discover that the only alchemy behind the hedonistic glory of a handcrafted Starbucks frappé is three pumps of mass-produced sugar syrup, and she suspects that things here are more genuine somehow.
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Delilah S. Dawson (Bloom)
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The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll
Nine months he sailed the wine-red seas of his mother's blood
Out of the cave of dreaded Night, of sleep,
Of troubling dreams he sailed
In his frail dark boat, the boat of himself,
Through the dangerous ocean of his vast mother he sailed
From the distant cave where the threads of men's lives are spun,
Then measured, and then cut short
By the Three Fatal Sisters, intent on their gruesome handcrafts,
And the lives of women also are twisted into the strand.
And we, the twelve who were later to die by his hand
At his father's relentless command,
Sailed as well, in the dark frail boats of ourselves
Through the turbulent seas of our swollen and sore-footed mothers
Who were not royal queens, but a motley and piebald collection,
Bought, traded, captured, kidnapped from serfs and strangers.
After the nine-month voyage we came to shore,
Beached at the same time as he was, struck by the hostile air,
Infants when he was an infant, wailing just as he wailed,
Helpless as he was helpless, but ten times more helpless as well,
For his birth was longed-for and feasted, as our births were not.
His mother presented a princeling. Our various mothers
Spawned merely, lambed, farrowed, littered,
Foaled, whelped and kittened, brooded, hatched out their clutch.
We were animal young, to be disposed of at will,
Sold, drowned in the well, traded, used, discarded when bloomless.
He was fathered; we simply appeared,
Like the crocus, the rose, the sparrows endangered in mud.
Our lives were twisted in his life; we also were children
When he was a child,
We were his pets and his toythings, mock sisters, his tiny companions.
We grew as he grew, laughed also, ran as he ran,
Though sandier, hungrier, sun-speckled, most days meatless.
He saw us as rightfully his, for whatever purpose
He chose, to tend him and feed him, to wash him, amuse him,
Rock him to sleep in the dangerous boats of ourselves.
We did not know as we played with him there in the sand
On the beach of our rocky goat-island, close by the harbour,
That he was foredoomed to swell to our cold-eyed teenaged killer.
If we had known that, would we have drowned him back then?
Young children are ruthless and selfish: everyone wants to live.
Twelve against one, he wouldn't have stood a chance.
Would we? In only a minute, when nobody else was looking?
Pushed his still-innocent child's head under the water
With our own still-innocent childish nursemaid hands,
And blamed it on waves. Would we have had it in us?
Ask the Three Sisters, spinning their blood-red mazes,
Tangling the lives of men and women together.
Only they know how events might then have had altered.
Only they know our hearts.
From us you will get no answer.
”
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Margaret Atwood (The Penelopiad)
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you asked me to sing for you, and through my toothy smile I had to admit that I only sound pretty with the capo tuned on 2nd. watching me meticulously handcraft one from miscellaneous hotel souvenirs, I sang to you a song I wrote about someone once before you.
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Orion Carloto
“
It might be extremely dorky to point out, but who you are is singular. It’s science. No one else in existence has your point of view or exact genome (identical twins and clones, look for inspiration elsewhere, please). That is why we need people to share and help us understand one another better. And on a bigger level than just taking a selfie. (Not hating on selfies, but a few is enough. You look good from that angle; we get it.) We need the world to hear more opinions, give glimpses into more diverse subcultures. Are you REALLY into dressing your cat in handcrafted, historically authentic outfits? No problem, there are people out there who want to see that! Probably in excruciating detail!
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Felicia Day (You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost))
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Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless tool.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Only kafir is one without kindness.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Worship of balls is but a prehistoric mania. There will be no balls without a vagina.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Everything is beautiful when you are with me, 'cause you are my ecstasy.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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If a tradition endorses hate and mistrust, it’s the tradition that we must reject not people.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Facebook is not just injurious to health, it's now a full-on humanitarian crisis.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
You are the ink, pen and paper, your life is your own decision.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Cutting edge on the outside, stoneage on the inside, that’s how we spend our life as imitation humans.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Bullets don't kill bigotry, only education does that.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Even the deaf can hear the music of life, yet those with ears hear nothing. Even the blind can see the beauty of heart, yet those with eyes are busy with shopping.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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If you are looking for explanation in love, you are not really in love.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
He stared at me, unreadable for a moment. "I've had women try to save me before," he said idly.
"Then that means I'll be yesterday's trash soon on that part of the equation, but we will still be friends."
He smiled with a far truer lift of his cheeks. "Don't be foolish. I told you before. I'd never let you go." He touched my chin, tilting it up toward him. "I could remove the danger, you know. Lock you in a room—a tower—"
"My hair isn't long enough," I said automatically.
"But you would spin me gold. So many things better than gold. Truer." His gaze dropped to my lips. "I would keep you in the finest of materials, handcrafted with only you in mind. The finest paints, in a tower so high that you would have no cares.
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Anne Zoelle (The Unleashing of Ren Crown (Ren Crown, #4))
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People who have nothing to prove offer practical baby gifts: sturdy cotton rompers made to withstand the cycle of vomit and regular washing. People who are competing for the titles of best-loved aunts and uncles - people like my sisters and me - send satin pants and delicate hand-crafted sweaters accompanied by notes reading "P.S. The fur collar is detachable.
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David Sedaris (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim)
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It is never about survival, not any more, if it were, we didn't have to move out of jungle. We moved out of our Mother Nature's basement, so we could build a kind world for ourselves.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Thandi looks at the rag dolls and the coasters and key chains and handcrafted jewelry that Delores delicately places inside the basket. How would visitors know the real stories behind the faces of the wooden masks they'd buy to have on walls; the rag dolls they'd use to decorate unused furniture in their houses; the figurines they'd place on mantels that they can marvel at and then quickly forget?
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Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun)
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The helpless, forgotten, discriminated and destitute, are my brothers and sisters, and I won't stop, till I lift them up to take their rightful place upon the fabric of society, with my last blood drop.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
I’ve made some things for you, Constant Reader; you see them laid out before you in the moonlight. But before you look at the little handcrafted treasures I have for sale, let’s talk about them for a bit, shall we? It won’t take long. Here, sit down beside me. And do come a little closer. I don’t bite. Except… we’ve known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that’s not entirely true. Is it?
”
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Stephen King (The Bazaar of Bad Dreams)
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Vagina Power (The Sonnet)
There's nothing special about growing balls,
In fact, man-sack is the definition of weakness.
If you wanna grow something, grow a vagina,
For vagina is the epitome of resilience.
There's an organism that goes through hell,
Quite regularly, yet stands strong and brave.
It is the source of all creation everywhere,
Yet all through history it's been kept as slave.
No love can surpass the love of a mother,
No care can surpass a sister's care.
Yet a society run by balls and bananas,
Makes a hooker out of our mothers and sisters.
Worship of balls is but a prehistoric mania.
There will be no balls without a vagina.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Somebody once asked me why I bother with an offering, since a god can presumably obtain almost anything he desires. This is like belittling a handcrafted present that a child makes for a parent. Of course the parent could have made or purchased something much nicer, but he or she will be delighted with the gift nevertheless. It is the act of giving that is appreciated, and the worth of the gift is directly proportionate to the effort put into it.
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Alaric Albertsson (To Walk a Pagan Path: Practical Spirituality for Every Day)
“
Simon Koertig took no pleasure from the act of murder.
That wasn’t true, exactly. He took tremendous pleasure from the art of murder. Of honing his skills, refining his craft, pursuing his quarry, and staging their perfect and elegant demise. Some murders were quick and brutally simple, others long and drawn-out affairs, but they were all handcrafted and beautiful acts. The relationship between executioner and victim, he believed, was more sacred than the bond between lovers.
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Craig Schaefer
“
With no small amount of trepidation, we walked alone past a colony of black-faced monkeys we’d been told were extremely dangerous. We avoided eye contact and certainly didn’t take pictures. And dearly wished our old Sherpa bag-carrying matey was nearby. We visited Gandhi’s tomb. We saw saris being printed and hand-knotted carpets being fabricated and negotiated a decent price for a small hand-crafted rug of Mughal design that, as long as we keep the certificate of authenticity safe, should appreciated in value. We witnessed poverty beyond poverty, with ‘untouchables’ so poor that they are actually outside the caste system, and who can’t even afford to live in the unsanitary slums described as 'unfit for human habitation.
”
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Karl Wiggins (Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe)
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No power should be taken for granted and used recklessly, even a knife is super lethal in the hands of an innocent toddler. That's why new parents childproof the home before childbirth, how do we peopleproof a planet so they don't hurt each other!
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
As we leave our youth, there’s a pull toward complacency. We can start to coast, settle for what’s familiar and lose the juicy desire to expand our frontiers. We adopt the paradigm of a victim. We make excuses and then recite them so many times we train our subconscious mind to think they are true. We blame other people and outer conditions for our struggles, and we condemn past events for our private wars. We grow cynical and lose the curiosity, wonder, compassion and innocence we knew as kids. We become apathetic. Critical. Hardened. Within this personal ecosystem the majority of us create for ourselves, mediocrity then becomes acceptable. And because this mindset is running within us each day, the viewpoint seems so very real to us. We truly believe that the story we are running reveals the truth—because we’re so close to it. So, rather than showing leadership in our fields, owning our crafts by producing dazzling work and handcrafting delicious lives, we resign ourselves to average.
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Robin Sharma (The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life)
“
I kept flashing back to an argument I used to have with my ex. Every time I vented about work, he rushed to hand-craft a solution, which was an irritating habit. All you want to do is fix me, I spat at him once. But I never thought to ask - Why do I have such a high tolerance for being broken?
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Sarah Hepola (Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget)
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Doctor's Sonnet
A doctor is one who's gentle as a bird,
A doctor is one who's brave as a soldier,
A doctor is one who's amusing as a clown,
A doctor is one who's caring as a mother.
Treating the sick is not a comfort job,
It is a difficult life without leisure and lure.
If all you want are wealth and tranquility,
Trade in your medical license for a liquor store.
The world is filled with doctors most cold,
Many don't practice medicine but self-centricity.
Instruments and intellect don't make a doctor,
Without warmth all pills lose their efficacy.
Healthcare means aid first talk rules later.
Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless monster.
”
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Scents of raspberry and apricot teased her nose. With a deft hand, she nestled each silky delicacy with care into a cardboard box.
Celina had grown up with the aroma of chocolate wafting through her home. As a young woman, her mother had studied at a chocolaterie in Paris before the war, and she had taught Celina how to make handcrafted praliné or truffles, the molded or rounded chocolates filled with delectable centers, such as caramelized nut paste of noisettes or amandes. For her, Celina often chose apricot, cherry, salted caramel, cream liqueurs- or any other filling that might catch her fancy. Lately, she had been experimenting with the delicate flavor of green tea she'd found in San Francisco's Chinatown.
”
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Jan Moran (The Chocolatier)
“
Before drawing any affirmative conclusions let us first note the absence of the concept of imitation as a general pastoral or moral guideline. There is in the New Testament no Franciscan glorification of barefoot itinerancy. Even when Paul argues the case for celibacy, it does not occur to him to appeal to the example of Jesus. Even when Paul explains his own predilection for self-support there is no appeal to Jesus' years of village artisan. Even when the Apostle argues strongly the case for his teaching authority, there is no appeal to the rabbinic ministry of Jesus. Jesus' trade as a carpenter, his association with fishermen, and his choice of illustrations from the life of the sower and the shepherd have through Christian history given momentum to the romantic glorification of the handcrafts and the rural life; but there is none of this in the New Testament, which testifies throughout to the life and mission of a church going intentionally into the cities in full knowledge of the conflicts which awaited here there. That the concept of imitation is not applied by the New Testament at some of those points where Franciscan and romantic devotion has tried most piously to apply it, is all the more demonstration of how fundamental the thought of participation in the suffering of Christ is when the New Testament church sees it as guiding and explaining her attitude to the powers of the world. Only at one point, only on one subject - but then consistently, universally - is Jesus our example: in his cross.
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John Howard Yoder (The Politics of Jesus)
“
Lover off The Street (A Sonnet)
Beauty and bliss are all around,
When my feet walk alongside yours.
Life reaches the pinnacle of being,
When I'm annihilated for a smile of yours.
Climbed plenty hills, trotted plenty jungle,
Nowhere did I find a drop of sanity.
Then I stood crazy before your radiance,
And I got drenched in beams of serenity.
I am but a naïve lover off the street,
Without a single trace of intellect.
The only thing that I've learnt in life is,
In your happiness lies my upliftment.
Business is measured by how much we receive,
Life is realized when we stand hellbent to give.
”
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Kee Li Tong was one of my favorite chocolatiers in New York. Years earlier, I had a fleeting addiction to her otherworldly crème brûlée truffle, a dainty yet dangerous homemade bonbon that you have to pop into your mouth whole, or suffer the consequences of squirting eggy custard all over your blouse. Now, I discovered, she was handcrafting macarons in wild and wonderful flavors like blood orange, sesame, and rose. How did she create her recipes? What inspired her expanded repertoire? And how did hers compare to Paris's best?
Emboldened as I was by my new French history lessons, I asked Kee in her Soho boutique: why macarons?
"Because they're so pretty!" Kee laughed. "They're so dainty. I think it's the colors." And, standing as we were above the glass display case, I had to agree. Her blueberry macarons were as bright as the September sky. The lotus flower was the kind of soft pink that's the perfect shade of blush. Kee's favorite flavor, passion fruit, was a snappy corn husk yellow. These were surrounded by greens (lulo and jasmine green tea) and purples (lavender, which was dotted with purple sugar crystals) and some neutral shades as well (white truffle oil and mint mocha).
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Amy Thomas (Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate))
“
Facebook Sonnet
Facebook is not just injurious to health,
It's now a full-on humanitarian crisis.
If you think it's just a harmless bad habit,
You're fanning the flames of social necrosis.
Social media ought to make people social,
Not make pavlov's dogs out of humanity.
Yet all that facebook actually does today,
Is drive society towards clinical insanity.
Social media is not necessarily bad,
So long as it doesn't feed on our stability.
Yet facebook has devised the perfect algorithm,
To learn, pump and monetize human instability.
Facebook is the definition of what AI must be not.
Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.
”
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
“
Did It Ever Occur to You That Maybe You’re Falling in Love?
BY AILISH HOPPER
We buried the problem.
We planted a tree over the problem.
We regretted our actions toward the problem.
We declined to comment on the problem.
We carved a memorial to the problem, dedicated it. Forgot our handkerchief.
We removed all “unnatural” ingredients, handcrafted a locally-grown tincture for the problem. But nobody bought it.
We freshly-laundered, bleached, deodorized the problem.
We built a wall around the problem, tagged it with pictures of children, birds in trees.
We renamed the problem, and denounced those who used the old name.
We wrote a law for the problem, but it died in committee.
We drove the problem out with loud noises from homemade instruments.
We marched, leafleted, sang hymns, linked arms with the problem, got dragged to jail, got spat on by the problem and let out.
We elected an official who Finally Gets the problem.
…
We watched carefully for the problem, but our flashlight died.
We had dreams of the problem. In which we could no longer recognize ourselves.
We reformed. We transformed. Turned over a new leaf. Turned a corner, found ourselves near a scent that somehow reminded us of the problem,
In ways we could never
Put into words. That
Little I-can’t-explain-it
That makes it hard to think. That
Rings like a siren inside.
”
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis)
“
Facts and Belief (The Sonnet)
No belief is worth losing your humanity over,
No intellect is worth losing your kindness over.
Facts, faith, reason, religion all come later,
First and foremost we must humanize our behavior.
If a belief or intellect makes you a better person,
More power to your belief or intellect I say.
But if they become a hindrance to your humanity,
Throw it immediately like poison far, far away.
Beliefs have cast shadows of wars throughout history,
Facts have provided weapons for those wars.
Then again beliefs have taught us to love our neighbor,
Facts have helped us fight calamity and disorders.
Let all beliefs and facts be guided by a warm heart.
Warmth alone will make our world fit for human birth.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Now we're going to one of the coolest places in Florence."
"Where's that?"
"A pharmacy."
"You're taking the princess to a drugstore?"
"I said a pharmacy. Climb on."
Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella is a pharmacy only in the ancient sense of the word. As soon as I saw and smelled what "pharmacy" it was, I recognized it as the origin of the exquisitely wrapped, handcrafted soaps, colognes, potpourris, and creams I had seen in their shop on New York's Lower East Side. But nothing could compare with seeing them in the frescoed chapel where thirteenth-century Dominican friars had first experimented with elixirs and potions. Centuries-old apothecary jars and bottles sat on the shelves of carved wooden cupboards that swept almost to the top of a high, vaulted ceiling. I walked slowly around the room, taking it all in, as Danny spoke to a smartly dressed salesgirl.
"What an incredible place!" I sighed, walking over to stand beside him. "It's so beautiful."
"Pretty special," he agreed, putting his hand high on my back and turning to the salesperson. "I think mimosa," he told her.
"A very good choice, I think," she said, dabbing a small amount of mimosa eau de cologne on my wrist and then my neck with a delicate applicator.
Danny bent forward so he could smell my neck, then stood back. He drew his eyebrows together and put his hands on his hips. "I definitely think that's you. First, you get this oddly enticing tart kick, then you detect the sweetness. It's a subtle sweetness- not overpowering, but definitely there."
"Hilarious," I said sarcastically and kicked him playfully in the shin.
"Then you get the kick again," he winced, rubbing his leg.
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Nancy Verde Barr (Last Bite)
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Blitzen!” Junior suddenly appeared. He crutched toward me with his rocket-powered walker and a lot of friends. “Get him, boys!”
“Ha! Eat light, Junior!” I unleashed the power of the mini bed.
Sadly, instead of a turn-you-to-stone laser beam, a weak glow enveloped Junior like a soft blanket. The charge had run out. A thin crust formed around him. It was nowhere near as dramatic as instant petrification, but it was startling enough to make the other dwarves pause.
And that made me think about how I looked to them. A dwarf who handcrafts a weapon that I know what it’s like to be petrified. It stinks. So I had every intention of cutting Alviss free on his next pass-by and then dipping him in the river to restore him. But before I could, the stalactite attached to the rope broke. Alviss’s momentum carried him over the cliff edge. He landed with a splash in the water below.
“Oops.” I peered down, then waved my hand dismissively. “Ah, he’ll be fine.”
“Blitzen!” Junior suddenly appeared. He crutched toward me with his rocket-powered walker and a lot of friends. “Get him, boys!”
“Ha! Eat light, Junior!” I unleashed the power of the mini bed.
Sadly, instead of a turn-you-to-stone laser beam, a weak glow enveloped Junior like a soft blanket. The charge had run out. A thin crust formed around him. It was nowhere near as dramatic as instant petrification, but it was startling enough to make the other dwarves pause.
And that made me think about how I looked to them. A dwarf who handcrafts a weapon that petrifies other dwarves? Not cool.
“Listen!” I yelled. “My argument is with Junior, not you. When he decrustifies, tell him I want to talk.”
I put the mini bed on the ground and showed them my empty hands while slowly backing away.
It would have been a very powerful moment if I hadn’t backed off the cliff into the river. As I thrashed through the churning water toward shore, three things occurred to me. One, Junior would never, ever forgive me. Two, my cashmere hoodie was ruined. And three . . . Mimir owed me a lot more than a quarter.
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Rick Riordan (9 From the Nine Worlds)
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Ted McGrath
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...[T]here was a new detective in town. From Minnesota. Sammy hoped for his sake he wasn’t a Vikings fan. If so, he’d certainly be in trouble, as the whole town bled green and gold. Green Bay Packers fans practiced their own religion in Wisconsin.
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Holly Quinn (A Crafter Knits a Clue (A Handcrafted Mystery #1))
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Mürekkep, kalem ve kağıt sizsiniz, hayatınız sizin kendi kararınız.
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Abhijit Naskar (Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World)
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Blends of Earth, based in the UK, specialises in vegan-friendly, cruelty-free natural massage oils with scents like rosemary, lavender, and lemongrass. Each product is infused with 100% pure turmeric essential oil, ensuring a chemical and paraben-free formulation. These handcrafted oils are designed for pain relief, particularly beneficial for arthritis and similar pains. Emphasising the use of nature's ingredients for their therapeutic properties, Blends of Earth commits to ethical practices, excluding synthetics and parabens, and refrains from animal testing, offering natural and effective solutions for pain relief and well-being.
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Blends of Earth
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Setting new boundaries and staying inside the established scriptural lifelines requires an investment of time, energy, and discipline.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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MINEsets are very real and relentless mindsets.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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We just don’t know what we don’t know.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Divorcing all dual tendencies of self-seated desires is where the presence and provision of peace will begin.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it and right is right even if no one is doing it.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Principles are what provide the foundational traction needed prior to accentuating the person.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Our public presentation should reflect our private loves and loyalties,... our belief system.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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New or long-term friendships are not sustained by relying on others to keep you on their auto dialer.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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I need help, I can’t do this by myself.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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A partner in crime to pride is false humility.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Coming to terms with the difficulty in changing ourselves should reveal the complexity in changing others.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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False humility rarely reveals itself to its host immediately.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Mistakes are often the results of misunderstandings accredited to the mind’s froggy, mental muscle flexing.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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If the trajectory of your life is negative or flawed, then evaluating your heart is a good place to begin.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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What if we don’t know what we think we know?
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Consider carefully what you hear.” (Matthew 4:24)
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Whatever our heart possesses, our life expresses.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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What and how is your spirit man contributing to the condition of your soul?
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Who wants to change a flat with a flat?
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Do you know what a foe is? Something or someone that isn’t “fo ya.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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We must refuse, resist, repent, and renounce our allegiance to the cunning yokes of self-deception.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Too often, we casually admit our guilt and express regret for the bad decisions made in the past but fail to chart a new course.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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As you recalibrate your private world, you will also begin reconfiguring your public world.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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The result of our spirit being regenerated is our soul (mind, will, intellect and emotions) being recalibrated, saturated, and transformed.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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The absence of filters, checks and balances lends itself to becoming a partner with the problem.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)
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You and I must be reachable and teachable, pliable, and reliable to intentionally assign God’s truths to our heart.
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Don Hand (HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul)