Balancing Act Quotes

“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

“When I am in balance with the vibration of the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets I am ultimately connected to the Universe.”
― Debbie A. Anderson

“Love mingled with grief, and rage.
Hope mingled with despair.
Sounds like the state of our world right now.”
― Shellen Lubin

“It's a balancing act,
keeping hope
but not letting it drive you to distraction.
Because the flip side of hope, the dark side,
is the side that keeps you wanting to be
somewhere else from where you are, with
something else from what you've got--
the side that keeps you from appreciating
and feeling fully and deeply what there is
in this moment.

Hope keeps us in the flow--moving forward--
and I will not underestimate its value, but
hopelessness keeps us present in the moment,
whether it is the Buddhist hopelessness of non-attachment or
the hopelessness of despair.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Giving up and letting go have similar resonances,
and often it is only when you give up
that you can fully know and feel who and where you actually are.”
― Shellen Lubin

“I think there is a place where hopefulness and hopelessness co-exist,
one of my beloved contradictory co-existing realities
(what others call a paradox,
but paradoxes can be mis-defined themselves,
not owning their true contrari-ness and/or co-existence):
something like joy-and-hope-in-the-process-of-being-and-becoming,
something like awareness-of-distant-goals-without-attachment-to-getting-them, something like satisfaction-in-dissatisfaction.

Like riding a roller coaster,
being and feeling where it is and feeling where it's going
all at the same time,
since where it's going is part of where it is, and,
whatever the now is, it will never
stay there.

Something like life.”
― Shellen Lubin