When you are imprisoned, you can’t enjoy the benefits of being alive. You can’t educate yourself and discover the beauty of the world. Fishy

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.

Everyone is indeed imprisoned within their perceptions.

Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.