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#1

“Is it a loss when someone dies
who you had already let go?”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: breakup, death, grief, loss, mixed-up-feelings, process, tangled-web

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#2

“What is more than memory
that connects us always?...
what was it I wrote for him,
this then-young then-not-young man hungering for fame and acclaim
as much or more than burning with something to say?

I wrote him a poem called Immortality,
assuring him of his,
about the immortality we have through connection,
through shared experience and the memory of it,
through how we touch and alter each other”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: connection, destiny, experience, fame, fire, immortality, memory, purpose, tangled-web, touch

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#3

“So don't ask people to be nicer
unless they're abusive,
unless they're the abusers.
And if they are,
maybe the nicest thing you can do in 2022
is kindly, gently, read them the so-called riot act.
And warn them a riot may be coming their way.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: abuse, change, demand, gentle, is-it-nice, kind, liberation, power, warning

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#4

“If all of us who at some point in history were not considered white
considered ourselves 'Other' then
how many white people would there even be?”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: awake, awareness, diaspora, diversity, history, wake-up, waking-up

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#5

“They' in conventional wisdom,
in much literature (like Edward Lear's limericks),
in the mouths of conservative (and faux-conservative) politicians
refers to traditional society, those of privilege,
those with power, those
in control of what is known, thought, believed...
But 'everybody else'...
knows
what's going on.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: awareness, belief, conservatism, conservative, control, politics, power, privilege, thoughts, waking-up

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#6

“If all of us who at some point in history were not considered white
considered ourselves "Other" then
how many white people would there even be?”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: awake, awareness, diaspora, diversity, history, wake-up, waking-up

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#7

“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: contradiction, contradictory, dictionary, paradox, reality, true

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#8

“I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: belief, reason, sense

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#9

“Education itself is Marketing--marketing tools and perspectives to people who don't necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with no attempt to assess the value of what is being marketed).”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: education, marketing, perspective, tools

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#10

“Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops. The land is arid and dry without it, and trying to grow things is likely to be futile.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: fertilizer, growing-things, growth, land

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#11

“After another deadly weekend,
mass shootings across the country,
we know--oh, how we know--how high the stakes,
how polarized the public:
the desperation for liberty, equality, and justice
and the rage and backlash against it.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: carpe-diem, equality, gun-control, justice, liberty, mass-shootings, polarization, rage, seize-the-opportunity

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#12

“What brings you relief?
Speaking your truth, crying your grief, or not needing to speak?
Reading, writing, playing games, dancing, or doing nothing at all?
Listening to songs, or piano etudes, or complete silence?
Darkness or candlelight or bright beating sun?
Blues, reds, yellows, many colors, or no color at all?
Hot or cold water? Immersed or pouring over you?
Tasting something crunchy, or sweet and smooth?
The scent of jasmine, or cucumber, or musk?
Someone touching you gently, or going deep,
or being utterly and completely alone?

We are all different...
When the quality of the overload changes,
so does the quality of relief.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: crying, dance, darkness, reading, rebalance-through-relief, silence, solitude, sun, truth, writing

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#13

“... continually shifting perspective ... including, always,
the side where we laugh at everything, including ourselves; and all with love-- love for ourselves with all imperfections, love for others and theirs, love for this crazy, delicious, brutal world in which we live.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: h-b-me, imperfection, laugh, laughter, life, love

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#14

“Man-made disaster is here and upon us in multiple forms, each one its own earthquake, flood, fire, tsunami. And the repercussions keep coming. We can barely catch our breath...And yet there is still so much to be done, so much we can do, so much to care for and about. Is there a way through? We may not know, but the way through is also the way of surmounting suffering...”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: disaster, repercussions, surmounting-suffering

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#15

“I think that's how and why all systems are ultimately corrupted, because instead of following the rules as a template for the deeper meaning of the intention of the rules, the rules are used by people to take advantage of the system for their own selfish, narcissistic, or even nefarious desires.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: corruption, intentions, reasons-for-rules, systems

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#16

“We cannot get anywhere without hope
and yet
we cannot get anywhere on hope alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: balance, contradiction, faith, hope, reality, tightrope-dance

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#17

“We cannot have reckless hope...
Everything that actually happens
happens in the real world,
our real world.
We need to take action,
have hope and faith,
but also learn from what actually occurs...
Another tricky balancing act.
Another contradictory co-existing reality.
Another tightrope dance.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: action, balancing-act, faith, hope, tightrope-dance

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#18

“The tender heart is never stone.
It beats and throbs--a jab--a moan--
With pulsing deep in muscle, bone,
It makes its own desires known.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: desire, heart, jab, moan, muscle, pulse, tender, throb, with-love

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#19

“I have said for many years
that the only real difference between a philosophy
and a religion
is one or more gods...

I am learning more and more--
as I did when studying eastern religions in my twenties--
how powerful prayer can be,
and I don't mean because one god answers anyone's prayers.

It is the place it puts us in.
Focus.
Reflection.
Vertical communication.
Surrender (to the powers that be
and those that may or may not be).
And so:
Hope.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: focus, gods, higher-power, hope, philosophy, prayer, prayer-for-peace, reflection, religion, surrender

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#20

“You cannot fell a hill
From force of will
Only time.
You cannot dissipate
Hate with righteous hate
Only love.
Only time, only love,
Only time and love.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: love, peace, prayer-for-peace, time, ukraine, will

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#21

“Might the safest space be this:

Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life, safe to struggle with them...
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.

You are not alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: companionship, conundrums, dis-comfort, feeling, safe-space, traveling, truth

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#22

“The word suffrage has nothing to do with suffering. It's from the Latin 'suffragium' and it's about having a vote, a voice, the right to participate in the making of decisions.
And isn't that the same struggle (which does have to do with suffering) that we are facing in this country? That all adults should have a vote, a voice, the right to participate in the making of decisions?
Universal Suffrage. What Extreme Conditions will it take for us to forge the path to it?”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: decision-making-power, extreme-conditions, pathway, rights, struggle, suffering, universal-suffrage, voice, vote

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#23

“Check yourself because it can be a gift to go slowly through an action
(an action you do all the time mindlessly)
and see how you do it, see it anew,
like when an American drives a car in England,
or peeling the first pomegranate of the season,
or entering anywhere you haven't been
for a very very long time.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: action, anew, check-yourself, gifts

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#24

“Might the safest space be this:

Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life, Safe to struggle with them
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.

You are not alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: companionship, conundrums, dis-comfort, feeling, safe-space, traveling, truth

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#25

“Knowledge is fluid, not finite;
the same for wisdom.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: fluidity, knowledge, replacing-thought, wisdom

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#26

“The more we try to concretize what can be known,
the less we are open to discover
what is not yet known,
not yet seen,
not yet recognized.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: discovery, openness, replacing-thought, unknown, unrecognized, unseen

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#27

“Numbers should always add up and reconcile
but the only thing that can be added up and reconciled with numbers
are numbers.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: addition, mathematics, numbers, reconciliation, replacing-thought

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#28

“Might the safest space be this:

Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life Safe to struggle with them...
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.

You are not alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: companionship, conundrums, dis-comfort, feeling, safe-space, traveling, truth

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#29

“Ukraine is truly resisting tyranny...
As the Russian forces get closer to Poland, many Ukrainians go--not further west from the border--but back into Ukraine...don't think it couldn't happen here. Vigilance has been required of us, but nothing like the vigilance that has been required of the Ukrainian people.
It may yet be.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: poland, resistance-to-tyranny, ukraine, vigilance

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#30

“...will those who seek power and resist change destroy our country before we get to make it better?...
Will our entire world as we know it be destroyed before we get to make it better? Is there even a path to better...?
The chaos may bring clarity, may breed heros and artists and empathy, but it also destroys.
I think we are each trying to find how best to resist the despair that such evil breeds and relies upon, and find a way forward that finds (or makes) meaning, value, some kind of order.
What else can we do?”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: artists, betterment, change, clarity, empathy, extended-chaos, heroes, meaning, order, value

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