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#1

“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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#2

“I see truth and knowledge
and understanding like layers
of an onion,
peeling away assumptions, leading to
recognizing even more assumptions,
leading to research to discover
more knowledge, leading to deeper truths and
greater understanding.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: assumptions, discovery, knowledge, research, reveal, truth, understanding, waking-up

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#3

“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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#4

“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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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“I have always tried...
to counter the forces of
deeply embedded systemic power structures,
the ruthless abuse of that power,
and the pull to regression
to the benefit of some at the expense of others.

Those forces are strong.

We are stronger.

Never forget that.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: abuse, balance, compassion, humanity, oppression, power, repression, resilience, scotus-fail, strength

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#12

“We may lose battles
but we are stronger
and the only thing that can defeat us ultimately
is our willingness to accept defeat.

We cannot accept defeat.

I do not accept defeat.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: battle, hope, irrepressible, loss, persistence, resilience, resistance, resolve, scotus-fail, strength

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#13

“...whatever we do whatever way
we move forward
there will be damage carried
from all previous rows and columns
in this mathematical computation
we make, all the multi-configured additions and subtractions
in language America,
in all bases, particularly
I'm thinking about
at the moment
1492, 1776, 1861, 1867, 1980, 2016, 2020.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: carry-your-load, columbus, conservatism, damage, democracy, freedom, progress, revolution, tyranny

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#14

“We need to demand that people help carry the load,
who have not historically held even a modicum of their share
of the weight,
and carry it for those who historically
have carried the load for all of us.
We need to care,
extend effort, cherish
those who have not been fully appreciated.

Don't you want to be one of the ones to help carry their load?

Don't you want someone to help you carry your load?”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: balance, care, carry-your-load, cherish, compassion, demand, empathy, help, humanity, value

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#15

“We need each other more than ever.
We cannot get through it alone,
find the hope to move forward and do
all we need to do
alone,
find the joy and beauty
alone
to have the incentive
to find the hope.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: beauty, carry-your-load, hope, inspiration, joy, motivation, progress, purpose, solidarity, support

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#16

“Be nice,' we're often told,
particularly we women--
along with other populations under-appreciated
and over-oppressed...
Until recently, that has mostly been said to those without power...
Because those in power didn't have to be nice,
were never expected to be nice.

Recently it's being said more often to those with great power,
and there is value in that.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: accountability, change, conditioning, expectations, is-it-nice, minorities, power, society, system, values

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#17

“When demanded of those without power--
'if you said it more nicely maybe we would listen'--
'I can't hear you when you're so angry'--
'the ones who are nice are the ones who will get what they want'
(or, worse, the ones who are nice and pretty,
which, of course, also includes white, Christian, and 'classy')--
it is yet another subjugation,
yet another tool of oppression.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: christianity, conditioning, is-it-nice, oppression, power, pretty, tools, white

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#18

“...important truths, perspectives, and awarenesses
may feel harsh
no matter how 'nicely' they are stated,
and so,
we can't always be nice”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: awareness, honesty, important, is-it-nice, perspective, reality, truth, truths

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#19

“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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#20

“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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#21

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

tags: fluidity, knowledge, replacing-thought, wisdom

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#22

“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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#23

“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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#24

“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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#25

“...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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#26

“Take these sunflower seeds and put them in your pockets' said one Ukrainian woman to a Russian soldier on her street, 'At least when you die, something will grow.' Others ask soldiers, 'How do you explain to your mother why you are here?' The soldiers are disheartened, no shock and awe, no Zelenskyy slinking off to another country, not what Putin expected.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: extreme-conditions, growth, mother, soldiers, ukraine, woman

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#27

“We can't do it all the time--we couldn't possibly live--
but if we never do it,
the living is completely automatic
and the cognitive illusions hold full sway.

Check yourself.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: check-yourself, cognition, illusion, living

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#28

“An alarm rings again again.
It's still the same again again.
Still the season of COVID-19 (variant three and maybe four).
Still the season of political instability.
Still so much to contend with.
Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day Again.
Groundhog Day Again Again.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: again, alarm, contention, covid-19, groundhog-day, if-not-tomorrow-redux, ring

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#29

“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, #Reasons4Rules https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fmmq4rules%3Ffbcl

tags: corruption, intentions, rules, systems

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#30

“Some parts of us all are boulders on the shoreline. Some parts of us all are racing across the waters. Some parts of us all wax and wane with the tides. It's hard to find one's footing, to keep one's footing, at times like this. And still and still you can't walk the road without finding dry land.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: boulders, dry-land, footing, progress, tides

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