34 quotes found
“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 regi...”
“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.”
“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.”
“What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?”
“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?”
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“Saadis dictum, in the Bostan: The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe”
“Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.”
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.”
“Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.”
“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”
“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 t...”
“If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.”
“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 discipl...”
“Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.”
“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 cult...”
“Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.”
“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 ...”
“it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.”
“Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say God.”
