Reality is simply our perception, and we experience the world and respond to things that go on around us through our sensory representational systems. Accordingly, we can not know reality itself. It is not reality that limits us or empowers us, but rather it is our map of reality that does this. It is our mental construction of reality.
The map is not the territory itself, it is a representation of the territory.
Music from Hammock, Way Yes, My Bubba, and Lowercase Noises.