It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
...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
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing.… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“We were saying that thought is not merely the intellectual activity; rather it is one connected process which includes feeling and the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Thought has produced tremendous effects outwardly. And, as we'll discuss further on, it produces tremendous effects inwardly in each person. Yet the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“If we think, for example, that thought is coming from me individually, this will affect how thought works. So we have to… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Q: Are you saying that thought has a kind of possessive quality which stays, gets stuck, and then becomes habitual? And we… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“So we have this system of thought. Now, I say that this system has a fault in it—a systemic fault. It's not… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“I'm discussing how thought would properly work—and does in fact work in many areas—first, to show that thought is not all bad;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“It is worth repeating what I've said the last few years—that in our language we have a distinction between 'thinking' and 'thought'.… — 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… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
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… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
...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… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
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