Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.
The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.
I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.
How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
