114 Quotes About Conditioning

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.

Meditation is not about any philosophy, spirituality or a religion. Its a pathless path. Its a silent journey from slavery to freedom. Its all about composing beautiful symphony of our life with ultimate bliss, love and peace.

When you see through what the conditioned mind-body thinks things mean, in particular its judgments of good and bad, you awaken to your true nature as peace and oneness with the spiritual essence of all life.

One free act consciously taken is enough to dispel a lifetime of conditioning.

But I also instantly recognized this response as my conditioning from grad school, where these things were trained out of me, where I was reprogrammed in a way that actually took away my power while purporting to give me access to power--power that, through my voice, I'd already had.

Suppose you have 2L of nectar and you want a vessel to keep it. There is a golden vessel of 1L capacity and there is a steel vessel of 2L capacity. If your mind were free, you would choose the steel vessel and be happy. But your mind is conditioned to believe that gold is better than steel. So none of the vessels will make you happy. Steel one will make you feel inferior and gold one can't contain all of your nectar.

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

One free act is often enough to dispel a lifetime of conditioning.