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Conditioning is attachment: attachment to work, to tradition, to property, to people, to ideas and so on.

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Freedom form conditioning comes from freedom from thinking

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How arduous it is to be free of influence!

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In order to be free of influences, it is first necessary to wake up to this whole process and see how you are constantly being influenced, subtly or crudely, by every cinema poster, by half-naked women, by the magazines, the radio, and the books that you read

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It is fairly obvious that the mind is influenced, educated, shaped, not only by the present culture, but by centuries of culture

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The unconscious is a result - is it not? - of innumerable influences and compulsions, both self-imposed and imposed by society

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We are not aware of our conditioning, and until we are, we can only produce further conflict and confusion

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