Psychological Trap Quotes

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

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

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

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

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.

The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up for grabs. ... You're safe because you have an ironic distance from the coercive techniques I'm employing. All of them that is, except this one. Are you on your guard yet? Does it feel good? Of course not.

The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.