Reality as Prison

May 1, 2006 | Share/Save

"Reality…becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it." - Joyce Cary, 1888-1957

"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will…" - Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian Poet

"You would never get out of prison if you were to tell of life as you know it to be, starting with your own…. Today's reality would not be allowed to anyone." - Louis Ferdinand Celine, Hommage to Zola, pub. A.D. 1933

"…[O]rdinary reality is like a bad imitation, a cheap parlour trick in a grimy hotel, an eternally baited trap for the mind and senses. The gnostics had this much right: we're trapped in our bodies and we can't see our way out. The day-to-day world we create with our perceptions has no independent reality; it's all done with mirrors." - Clark Heinrich, Strange Fruit: Alchemy and Religion - The Hidden Truth, p. 194, pub. A.D. 1995