🤯 Some inspiration to start exploring Plato's cave:
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." — Plato
"The prison door of self is never closed, but very few wish to walk through it. The chains that confine us in Plato’s cave are not locked, but very few are aware of their captive status." — Jed McKenna
"Those who have slipped their chains may be more effectively confined yet, thinking themselves free merely because their cell is larger and others are less free. Thinking themselves free, they don’t seek freedom. They are content in their captivity." — Jed McKenna
"If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape." — George Gurdjieff
"If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible." — Ram Dass
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act." — Aldous Huxley
"The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative." — Aldous Huxley
"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free." — Aldous Huxley
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." — Rosa Luxemburg
"The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature." — Sri Aurobindo
"Do you see now how you are in a prison created by the beliefs and traditions of your society and culture and by the ideas, prejudices, attachments and fears of your past experiences?" — Anthony de Mello
"What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it...That's the difference." — Anthony de Mello
"As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison." — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind." — Debasish Mridha
"A mind enclosed in language is in prison." — Simone Weil
