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“One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. >From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.”

Mind Firsts Steps Training First Steps True Happiness Conditioning Enabling Training The Mind

Author:S. N. Goenka

“A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows”

Air Computer Window Useless Conditioning Air Conditioning

Author:Linus Torvalds

“All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.”

Together Morality Ethics Links Conditioning

Author:Gautama Buddha

“You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]”

World Mind Mean Real Awareness Programming Conditioning Figments

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”

Mind Wisdom Past Lying Universe Fun Known Steps Creative Fields Possibility Prison Surrender Uncertainty Willingness Our Past Detachment Conditioning Creative Mind

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.”

Men Want Trying Firsts Mean Real Ends Courses Parent Brain Education Direct Patient Including Psychological Nonsense Manipulation Conditioning Real Education Natal

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.”

Should Wells States Body Conditions Effects Training Your Body Chess Well Being Dramatic Conditioning

Author:Pal Benko

“If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning. He wants to make it a contract. Or he enters a church, or he enters a political party, or he enters into any club and he wants to be structured, he wants to know where he stands in the hierarchy, in what relationship. He wants to have an identity - that 'I am this.' He does not want to remain uncertain. And life is uncertain. Only death is certain.”

Ifs Knows Want Doe Political Life Is Certain Church Party Relationship Identity Married Clubs Contracts Uncertain Political Parties Hierarchy Conditioning

Author:Rajneesh

“All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.”

“He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.”

Mind Use Political Opportunity Masters Mass Presses Radio Communicate Phrases Repeats Assumption Opposition Formulas Suggestions Diminish Dissent Conditioning

Author:Joost Meerloo

“We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.”

Needs Mind Has Beens Left Teach Awareness Pure Negative Motive Conditioning

Book:Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom

Source: Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom

“Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.”

Dream Memories Existence Dues Timeless Conditioning Just A Dream

Author:Mooji

“Paradigm is a part of the conditioning of the mind, our conditioning thought patterns”

Mind Patterns Paradigm Conditioning

Author:Bob Proctor

“There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.”

“To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.”

May Sex Pleasure Ordinary Negative Sacred Sexuality Pursuit Introduction Conditioning Recreation Initiate Misconstrued

Author:Zeena Schreck

“The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.”

“It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.”

May Persons Able Faces Suffering Social Development Degrees Constitution Adversity Significant Hardship Sheer Willpower Conditioning Facing Adversity

Author:Dalai Lama

“To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.”

Force Invisible Breakthrough Conditioning

Author:Deepak Chopra

“People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their circumstances and conditioning. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act.”

People Giving Believe Helping Choices Opportunity Circumstances Mindfulness Impulse Conditioning

Author:Gil Fronsdal

“Fighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don't want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and it's true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent.”

Want I Can Helping Problem Fighting Worry Knowing Minutes Anxiety Percent Advantage Tired Fighter Opponents Over You Conditioning Getting Tired

Author:Nick Diaz

“The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.”

Firsts Persons Sex Taught Female Males Factors Taoism Strongest Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.”

Firsts War Light Purpose Fighting Goal Dignity Mercy Silent Athlete Miles Boat Solitary Brutal Conditioning Grim All Alone Lone Rowing

Book:True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

Source: True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

“Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.”

“"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.”

“We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.”

Sometimes Past Belief Social Parent Tradition Our Past Conditioning

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.”

World States Stories Community Four Identity Building London Thirty Stability Centre Grey Motto Shields Conditioning Entrances Squat Brave New World Freedom

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.”

May Moments Sound Meditation Wonderful Strange Circumstances Ancient Sufficient Conditioning Dissatisfaction

Author:Wes Nisker

“One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.”

Past Humility Willing Authority Innocence Conditioning Stand Alone

Author:Adyashanti

“If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into non-misery. If anger creates a hell within you, then compassion will create a heaven. So whatsoever the process of misery, the reverse will be the process of happiness. Unconditioning means you have to understand the whole knotted phenomenon of human consciousness as it is.”

Ifs Humans Mean Whole Heaven Process Consciousness Compassion Hell Expectations Misery Factors Attachment Phenomenon Within You Reverse Conditioning Human Consciousness

Author:Rajneesh

“This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.”

Humans Persons Advantage Capacity Obvious Factors Conditioning

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”

Feels Real Body Creativity Expression Roots Surface Limitation Branches Conditioning Imposing Real Knowledge Personal Expression

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.”

Mind Shed Day To Day Conditioning

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.”

Ifs Needs Humans States Facts Would Be Individual Social Differences Liberty Members Species Appropriate Justified Conditioning Heretic Trifling Individual Differences

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.”

People Social Break Being True Granted Questioning Conditioning Break Through Hypnosis

Book:Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life

Source: Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life

“Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.”

“Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.”

Mind States Natural Land Awareness Blessed Conditioning

Author:Mooji

“Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.”

People Choices Conditions Products Circumstances Behavior Conscious Blame Conditioning Proactive

Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.”

Source: The Work of This Moment

“Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.”

Mma Coward Conditioning

Author:Dominick Cruz

“Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”

World Air Tree Planets Forests Lungs Conditioning Verge Switching Air Conditioning

Author:Prince Charles

“Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.”

Important Body Strong Can Do Exercise Conditioning Regular Exercise

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.”

Ifs Needs Trying Helping Courses Groups Air Building Raises Museums Conditioning Heating Group Of Friends Air Conditioning Upkeep

Author:Katherine Dunham

“It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.”

“I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

Thinking Men Jobs Sports Leadership Fit Essentials Coward Occupation Fatigue Conditioning Physically Fit

Author:Vince Lombardi

“Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.”

Guy Golf Flexibility Injured Conditioning

Author:Retief Goosen

“I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.”

Bigs Literature Poor Direct Towns Mechanism Conditioning

Author:Ella Maillart

“I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.”

Different Hard Running Used Sports Movement Training Train Rings Boxing Muscles Swim Swimming Conditioning Sparring

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

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

Self Struggle Mountain Expectations Lifetime Ridiculous Authenticity Epic Conditioning Authentic Self

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You’ll be going against the stream. You’ll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.”

Way Heart Self Training Streams Midst Conditioning Salmon

Author:John de Ruiter