The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
Interpretation
Introspection can lead to endless analysis without resolution.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick suggests that the act of introspection, or self-reflection, can become an infinite process. It implies that continually delving into one's thoughts and feelings may never reach a satisfying conclusion, as there is always more to explore and understand within oneself, potentially leading to confusion rather than clarity.
In practice
In a personal development seminar, to illustrate the complexities of self-exploration.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.
Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.
The law is reason, free from passion.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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