Conditioning Quotes - Page 11

• My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hair, Color, Mask

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Years, Long

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Thinking, Goal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.

  Tara Brach

  Home, Emotional, Compassion

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.73, Bantam

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• The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhist, Powerful, Teaching

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• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Fun, Lying

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• 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.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Humility, Past, Innocence

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• 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 H. McGill

  Struggle, Epic, Self

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• All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

  Sophia Bush

  Workout, Stress, Yoga

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• Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Body, Care, Take Care

  Details magazine interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2012.

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• Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Three, Four

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• There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

  James Dean

  Water, Choices, Swim

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• And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be fine. But it's not." "Why?" she asked. "Why are you losing control so badly?" The answer, when it came, broke Sascha's heart. "Hawke." It was an almost soundless whisper. "Oh, Sienna." She stroked her hand over the girl's hair, even as her mind worked at piercing speed. "Has it been cumulative?" Sienna nodded. "The second I met him, everything crumbled, my shields, my conditioning, everything!

  Nalini Singh

  Girl, Heart, Hair

  Nalini Singh (2011). “The Psy-Changeling eBook Collection”, p.929, Hachette UK

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• When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

  Anthony Powell

  Hate, Air, Creating

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.

  Lucy Christopher

  Coffee, Fire, Light

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Jealousy, Personality

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• The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system.

  Michael Somare

  Fighting, Simple, Air

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• We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Overcoming, Unworthy

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You will have to get rid of your parents and your conditioning. Life has been in such a trap up to now that even a small child starts feeling guilty. We have not yet been able to develop an education which can help people to grow without feeling guilty. And unless that education happens man will remain ill, ill at ease.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Men, Voice

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• Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.

  Ken Yeang

  Opportunity, Air, Space

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, People, Matter

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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