Quotes About Conditioning

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning.

No matter how much workers may have been conditioned in time discipline by primary schooling, they will see the demand to work continually at a steady pace for eight hours a day regardless of what there is to do as defying all common sense—and the pretend make-work they are instructed to perform as absolutely infuriating.27

Jung summarized his work in typology and how it related to the Tao as follows: The book on types yielded the insight that every judgment made by an individual is conditioned by his [or her] personality type and that every point of view is necessarily relative. This raised the question of the unity which must compensate this diversity, and it led me directly to the Chinese concept of Tao.73

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.

You get used to... what you want to get used to.

Sí, es la conciencia de la edad lo que nos condiciona, más que la edad misma.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

If there is awareness in you, you will be able to recognize that voice in your head for what it is: an old thought, conditioned by the past. If there is awareness in you, you no longer need to believe in every thought you think. It's an old thought, no more. Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.