conditioning

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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?

Male social conditioning encourages boys and men to aim to bed as many women as possible....so much so, that their self esteem and self worth become intertwined with the number of sexual partners they have; and when that number is low or even zero, so too is their self-confidence.

One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It__ hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It__ implicit.

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true.

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

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Saadi__ dictum, in the Bostan: __he Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

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.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

Being human trespass the conditionings of the laws of the worlds that have been created by the conditioned society _ these reflective of a conditioned mind reflect the facets of the self, to discipline and educate indirectly; restrict evolution for pardon, and affliction

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

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.