George Fox said that there was one, Jesus Christ, who could speak to his condition. I have always taken that to mean his "situation" as a human being and while I still think that’s an accurate characterization of where he was coming from I think that substituting the word "conditioning" for condition illuminates.

Conditioning is the process—intentional or circumstantial—by which a creature is conformed to the demands of an environment.

We are all conformed, throughout our lives, to the demands of this earthly, fleshy, carnal existence that is going on around us. We are conditioned to react to stimulation in certain ways in order to be a part of where we live. This is, in a real sense, how it is that we "owe the world a living." (Did your father ever tell you that the world doesn’t owe you a living? Yeah. Mine did. He never explained to me that the point is that I owe the world a living—that in order to get from it what I want I must conform to it. Of course, more deeply, if I am to get from the world what the world has taught me that I should want then I must do that which the world demands).

Christ/The Spirit/The Light/The Transcendent Reality is the means to be conformed away from the conditioning. The conditioning tells us we need the world, the conditioning tells us that the world is where it’s at. But the world doesn’t solve our problems, our basic emptiness, our alienation which is the human condition. The world just takes more and more from us and then, when we are spent, leaves us with nothing.