Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Swimming is probably my main conditioning. It gives you a full-body workout. It builds endurance, builds your lungs strong, I mean you… — Vince Wilfork Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch,… — Steve Yzerman Copy Share Image
At the Last Supper how come no one sat on the other side of the table? See, I think originally there were… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“If you listen repeatedly to religious speech, after enough repetitions you will actually begin to notice God and His works where there… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone,… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world,"… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like… — Jared Spool Copy Share Image
When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image