June Singer quotes

“When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"”
-- June Singer

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“Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.”
-- June Singer

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“If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.”
-- June Singer

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“Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.”
-- June Singer

Source : June Singer (1989). “Androgyny: The Opposites Within”, Sigo Pr

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“Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.”
-- June Singer

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“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

“At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.”

“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”

“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.”

Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

“Man has become great through struggle”

“I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.”

“Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”