To Always Recognize Where The Real Walls Were

BUDDHA TEMPLE
ISIS TEMPLE / BUDDHA TEMPLE
CHEOPS PYRAMID

One of the things I learned in my maddest years was that one could be in a room, with walls and barred windows and locks on the doors, surrounded by other crazy people, or even stuffed into an isolation cell all alone, but that really wasn't the room one was in at all. The real room that one occupied was constructed by memory, by relationships, by events, by all sorts of unseen forces. Sometimes delusions. Sometimes hallucinations. Sometimes desires. Sometimes dreams and hopes, or ambitions. Sometimes anger.
That was what was important: to always recognize where the real walls were.
--John Katzenbach
The Madman's Tale

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