Thought patterns

Why do we use certain phrases in this life to respond in conditioned ways to situations and people? We learn phrases as we grow up, such things as 'in this day and age' and we just regurgitate them script like when our minds are triggered by conversations or actions of others.

Now is it really our true response to something? The same can be said for racism or in fact discrimination of any sort. My thoughts on this topic are that we only ever learn discrimination through the actions and thoughts of others, most likely people such as our peers, parents, or colleagues. Once we hear something enough times we start to beleive it, even if it's at a subconscious level. We must actively think and act against these thought patterns to find what we truely believe.

Conditioning by exposure throughout life causes much hatred and is a very dangerous thing for the mind. It seems to cloud our souls real beliefs. I firmly believe that at the centre of our being, our true soul, we have no hatred or fears and we will accept each other totally. Skin color, geographical location, religious beliefs are all irrelevant.

It is the conditioning that makes a soul a hateful or aggressive person. I think in the western world we spend far too much time educating our children on issues in this physical world & how to understand and manipulate them to your best advantage. The spiritual world seems to be seen or thought of as an escape from reality. How wrong this view is, it is the physical world that is not reality & is in fact the escape.