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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

“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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#3

“We have to find a way to think--
think things through--
think beyond--
go wide--
go deep--
together.
One to One and All to All we must
Connect
Affect
Compromise
Find a way forward
together--
or I truly believe
we've lost all hope.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: commitment, compromise, connection, deep, forward, hope, persistence, thinking, thinking-through, unity

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#4

“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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#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

“The tides are turning.
Everybody else is waking up,
becoming more awake, aware, seeking knowledge,
challenging the assumptions.
'They' call it 'woke' and demean it...

'They' may be--may aspire to be--the authorities,
may judge and smirk and wield their swords,
but 'everybody else' knows what's really happening.
And the forces of change, however resisted,
will continue to awaken
us all.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: assumptions, authority, awareness, change, destiny, fear, judge, knowledge, power, waking-up

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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“Little things
over time
make big differences,
as true for depletion as it is
for progress.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: attention, big-things, depletion, details, little-things, longevity, progress, subtlety

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#12

“Do something again and again,
you build a practice, whether
it is a practice
of celebration
or destruction
of glorious simplicity or of simplicity
that numbs,
of complexity that challenges and grows you,
or complexity
that stultifies.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: big-things, celebration, challenge, complexity, destruction, growth, little-things, practice, repetition, simplicity

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#13

“Mind the little things.
Appreciate them.
Revere them, too.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: appreciation, attention, awareness, big-things, detail, little-things, reverence, value

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#14

“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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#15

“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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#16

“You cannot move forward in the real world
if you cannot see the real world.
You cannot find the beauty in the world
if all you see is its adornment.

Autumn comes.
Autumn falls.
Autumn leaves.
The world turns fire
and burns off all that is fading.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: autumn, autumn-falls, beauty, burn, decoration, fire, forward, reality, reveal, vision

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#17

“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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#18

“Begin again.

Begin again.

Every year
Every day
Every moment
Begin again.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: begin-again, beginning, moments, new-year, renewal, resolutions

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#19

“Your worst fears are just that, fears.
All you know, all you have done
is always there with you,
will always be so.
Nothing is lost when you leap--jump in--
with openness to the great whatever.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: action, begin-again, faith, fear, new-year, open, renewal, resolutions, trust, wisdom

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#20

“Fly, even if for just a moment.
You may land somewhere different.
You may land somewhat different.
Leap.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: change, discovery, faith, fly, free, movement, moving-forward, the-no-new-normal-new-normal

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#21

“She was one of the greatest losses, bell hooks...
a brilliant thinker, and writer,
and teacher,
reflective and brave and inspiring,
revolutionary ideas infused with ancestral wisdom,
always coming from a place of love,
which kept her in a world of possibility.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: bell-hooks, bravery, hooked-on-hooks, inspirational, love, reflection, teaching, thinking, wisdom, writing

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#22

“Come on! Laugh at it all! Or at least laugh at something!
All the shit will still be there to deal with when you're done,
but you'll be in better shape to deal with it!”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: belly-laugh, belly-laughs, coping, coping-mechanism, dare, laughing-gas, laughter, shit

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#23

“Trying to think.
Thinking about thinking.
Thinking about how we hear (and don't hear) each other.
Thinking about how we make connection,
have an effect
on each other.
Thinking about how that connection
alters ourselves, each other,
and the space between us.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: change, connection, hear, process, thinking, thinking-through

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#24

“Trying to think.
Thinking beyond.
Going wide...
Going deep...
Going away, doing something else...
Coming back,
thinking more.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: change, commitment, deep, growth, process, thinking, thinking-through

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#25

“You can't truly hear
and remain untouched.
You can't truly think
and remain unaltered.”
― Shellen Lubin

tags: alter, connection, hear, think, thinking-through, touch, truth

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#26

“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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#27

“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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#28

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

tags: fluidity, knowledge, replacing-thought, wisdom

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#29

“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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#30

“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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