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How can we be free to look and learn when our minds from the moment we are born to the moment we die are shaped by a particular culture in the narrow pattern of "me?"
For centuries we have been conditioned by nationality, caste, class, tradition, religion, language, education, literature, art, custom, convention, propaganda of all kinds, economic pressure, the food we eat, the climate we live in, our family, our friends, our experience --every influence you can think of-- and therefore our responses to every problem are conditioned. Are you aware that you are conditioned?

Krishnamurti