Mental Conditioning Quotes

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

We become what we think about.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.

Character is inured habit.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.