You're in prison
We're ALL in prison. Mental incarceration is the worst prison you can inhabit. And the jailer is you... The problem is that you don't even know it. You don't even see it. You can escape the prison. Anyone can. But the first step is to recognize (re-cognize; re-think), the fact that you're actually in one. Recognition (re-cognition; re-thinking) is the first law of learning and transformation. You can't change or transform anything until you first recognize that it must be changed and transformed. That's why it's the first law...