Conditioning Quotes

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

~ Idries Shah

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

~ Idries Shah

Remember that many negative people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called programming -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.

~ Suzy Kassem

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again.House-builder, you're seen!You will not build a house again.All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.

~ Gautama Buddha

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

~ Idries Shah

The power of the work comes through this alchemical process in which the darkness is transmuted into light, and the energy that was trapped in maintaining rigid social structures and unhealthy cultural conditioning becomes freed up and released.

~ William Keepin

We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?

~ Christmas Humphreys

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

~ Aldous Huxley

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

~ Dashanne Stokes

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

~ Idries Shah

Home is where you were conditioned.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you don't have the physical conditioning necessary to get your self out of trouble, the skills in this book won't do you much good.

~ Clint Emerson

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

~ Thomas Hardy

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.

~ Idries Shah

To say yes to the Sufi way is to say no to imagined escapes.

~ Idries Shah

With enough information, it is almost impossible not to predict people's action.

~ Idries Shah

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Training energy system to effectively resynthesize ATP – as quickly as possible – so that muscle contraction continues without onset of fatigue – forms the basis of most exercise protocols.

~ The Fitness Doc

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother thinks was merely cute may have been lethal.

~ Margaret Atwood

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal.

~ Margaret Atwood