Conditioning quotes
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity."
"Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind."
"This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person."
"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."
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"I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous."
"By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning."
"Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation."
"We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy."
"I've come to learn that conditioning is a huge thing, so I'm definitely trying to get my conditioning up."
