“Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.”— Bryant McGill
“it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’.”— Idries Shah
“They don’t deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white…, they only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and leisure time, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro. These characteristics don’t spring from whiteness or blackness, but from a man’s conditioning.”— John Howard Griffin
“The power of the work comes through this alchemical process in which the darkness is transmuted into light, and the energy that was trapped in maintaining rigid social structures and unhealthy cultural conditioning becomes freed up and released.”— William Keepin
“Remember that many “negative” people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.”— Bryant McGill
“if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity”— Idries Shah
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed.”— Idries Shah
“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?”— George Orwell
“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.”— Miya Yamanouchi
“Better to be safe than to be sorry’ is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.”— Idries Shah
“Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe”— Idries Shah
“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”— AainaA-Ridtz
“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.”— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“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.”— Jim Morrison
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of the disagreements thatplague contemporary intellectual life … But I would like to register a gentle protest. Metaphors influence the mind in many unnoticed ways. The willingness to describe fierce disagreement in terms of the metaphors of war makes the very existence of real wars seem more natural, more inevitable,more a part of the human condition. It also betrays us into an insensibility toward the very idea of war, so that we are less prone to be aware of how totally disgusting real wars really are.”— Ian Hacking