And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. — 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 then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the… — 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