We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.

Analogy pervades all our thinking,

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

Most of our expressions are metaphorical - the philosophy of our forefathers lies hidden in them.

We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought, for instance.

we are all prisoners of our thoughts.

"Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?"

They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again."

But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously reasonable thoughts. What should we be without the help of that which does not exist? Very little. And our unoccupied minds would languish if fables, mistaken notions, abstractions, beliefs, and monsters, hypotheses, and the so-called problems of metaphysics did not people with beings and objectless images our natural depths and darkness. Myths are the souls of our actions and our loves. We cannot act without moving towards a phantom. We can love only what we create.

There’s just one problem with feelings. They can be tremendously difficult to express in words. That’s the reason we so often resort to metaphors and analogies,