The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. David Bohm More Quotes by David Bohm More Quotes From David Bohm The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. David Bohm learning knowledge thinking Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it David Bohm our-world world Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence. David Bohm real two people To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts. David Bohm learning teaching reality We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive. David Bohm problem race facts Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole. David Bohm understood universe whole There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening. David Bohm block differences people In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is. David Bohm faces running long Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe. David Bohm nonsense care believe Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity. David Bohm moments eternity Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. David Bohm awareness running giving We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding. David Bohm unseen connections understanding Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy. David Bohm space energy sea We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us. David Bohm taken attitude reality In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. David Bohm clue men science Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented? David Bohm ego learning knows Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm learning real knowledge In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times. David Bohm transformation inspirational giving Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong. David Bohm doe attention way Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day. David Bohm empathy space organization
