David Bohm Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• 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

• 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

  Attitude, Taken, Reality

• It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

  David Bohm

  Creativity, Ideas, Fundamentals

  David Bohm, F. David Peat (2000). “Science, Order, and Creativity”, p.240, Psychology Press

• 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.

• ...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

• Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible?

  David Bohm

  Mean, Thinking, Reality

  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". Book by David Bohm, 1980.

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