David Bohm

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it…

— David Bohm

“If we think, for example, that thought is coming from me individually, this will affect how thought works. So we have to…

— David Bohm

“We also have the word 'feeling'. Its present tense suggests the active present, that the feeling is directly in contact with reality.…

— David Bohm

Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable…

— David Bohm

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only…

— David Bohm

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known…

— David Bohm

Universe consists of frozen light.

— David Bohm

“Your questions contain hidden assumptions; that's the point. Therefore, when you question the question itself, you may be questioning a deeper assumption.…

— David Bohm

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is…

— David Bohm

“We can get some relatively clear thought in science. But even there it is not entirely clear because scientists are worried about…

— David Bohm

We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the…

— David Bohm

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are…

— David Bohm

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical…

— David Bohm

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

— David Bohm

“Q: Are you saying that thought has a kind of possessive quality which stays, gets stuck, and then becomes habitual? And we…

— David Bohm

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

— David Bohm

“You may not even have known that you had an assumption. It was only because he came up with the opposite one…

— David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention…

— David Bohm

“Q: You're asking whether we can learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented? Bohm: That's part…

— David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

— David Bohm

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

— David Bohm

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

— David Bohm

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like…

— David Bohm

“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself…

— David Bohm

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,…

— David Bohm