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.
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
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