We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing… — David Bohm Copy Share
The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how the mind works. Then there is an art of self knowledge, which each person has to develop for himself. This art must lead one to be sensitive to how his basically false approach to life is always tending… — David Bohm Copy Share
...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“If we all had to do a job together, we would likely find that each one of us would have different opinions and assumptions,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are… — David Bohm Copy Share
The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant… — David Bohm Copy Share Image