While we are all aware of these kinds of behaviors because we see them in others, most of us do not realize that we distort our own view of the world, largely because we think we see more than we actually do.

We are full of preconceptions about ourselves and are limited by them. The actuality of our being is not something we have an easy time making room for.

Laws do not bind our perceptions. There are as many worlds as there are lives. It is not those who have no imagination who are the problem, for we all possess imagination, few of us use it well. The problem is with those who are frightened of the rather limitless validity of the imagination, frightened of people who continually extend the boundaries of the possible, people who ceaselessly redream the world and reinvent existence; frontiers people of the unknown and the uncharted.

the propensity of humans to allow others to think for them

I understand the need to sleepwalk… to venture outside the lines can be tricky and difficult… But the complexity of the mind behind the larger system of knowledge is stunning and will break through any way it can…