Mental Trap Quotes

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

I didn't want to get caught up in the mind-set that, 'Wait a minute, I'm ahead of Magic. I better slow down.'

Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.