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• Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.

  Caroline Myss

  Healing, Path, Achieve

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• Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Divinity

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• The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Unconditional Love, Ministry, Mystery

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• I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.

  Bill Watterson

  Kindness, Animal, People

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• The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Progress, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.297

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• Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love You, Want, Way

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Sacred, World

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• I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

  Robyn Davidson

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.

  Stephen Sizer

  Rights, Land, Covenant

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• Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Rights, Giving, Secret

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• With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Feelings, Comforting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.307, Penguin

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• The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.

  Elliott Sober

  Believe, Numbers, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

  Pete Newell

  Believe, Boards, Pieces

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• Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

  Aristotle

  Good Life, Spring, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2113, Princeton University Press

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• Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Reality, Light, Engagement

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that pleases them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.

  Louise Hart

  Children, Love You, Love Is

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• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Disappointment, Passion, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

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• Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

  Albert Ellis

  Self Esteem, Acceptance, Views

  Albert Ellis (1990). “The essential Albert Ellis: seminal writings on psychotherapy”, Springer Publishing Company

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• This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

  Albert Ellis

  Buddhist, Real, Self Esteem

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• The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

  Octavia Butler

  Fiction, Way, Wide

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• A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Sky, Giving

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• For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Art, Real, Self Esteem

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• A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

  Richard Dawkins

  Play, Behaviour, Opponents

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.96, Oxford University Press

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• The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Adversity, Doe, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Reality, Ifs And

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.97, Penguin

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