David Bohm Quotes

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• Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it

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  Our World, World

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• 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

  Understanding, Unseen, Connections

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• To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

  David Bohm

  Teaching, Learning, Reality

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• Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

  David Bohm

  Moments, Eternity

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Taken, Reality

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

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  Real, Two, People

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

  David Bohm

  Understood, Whole, Universe

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• 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

  Running, Giving, Awareness

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• The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

  David Bohm

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

  New Scientist (p. 42), February 1993.

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• We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

  David Bohm

  Race, Facts, Problem

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.29, Psychology Press

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• 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

  Sea, Space, Energy

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• Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

  David Bohm

  Individuality, Awareness, Ifs

  David Bohm's dialogue with Renee Weber, first published in the journal ReVision (1983), later published in Renee Weber "Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (p. 30), 1986.

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• In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

  David Bohm

  Nature, Transformation, States

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.1, Routledge

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• In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

  David Bohm

  Running, Long, Faces

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• 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

  Science, Men, Clue

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• 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

  Vacuums, Matter, Consciousness

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2003). “The Essential David Bohm”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• 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.

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  Organization, Space, Empathy

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• 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

  Real, Learning, Knowledge

  David Bohm, Mark Edwards (1991). “Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world”, Harpercollins

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

  David Bohm

  Learning, Ego, Knows

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• Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.

  David Bohm

  Player, Order, Games

  David Bohm's statement of 1987, as quoted in Joseph Riggio "Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human-Systems" (p. 66), June 2007.

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• 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

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• Universe consists of frozen light.

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  Light, Frozen, Universe

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• Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

  David Bohm

  Thinking, Creating, Trying

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2003). “The Essential David Bohm”, p.319, Psychology Press

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• ...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

  David Bohm

  Unity, Movement, Consciousness

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.10, Routledge

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

  David Bohm

  Believe, Care, Nonsense

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