114 Quotes About Conditioning

Nothing saddens me more than seeing how quickly the dog grows used to its leash.

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

You have not forgotten to remember;You have remembered to forget.But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

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

The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

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

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

That's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.