David Bohm Short Quotes

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Eternity can be affected by what happens in time.

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But the puzzle is, what happened before time began?

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This ocean of energy could be thought of as an ocean of light.

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Indeed, the laws of chance are just as necessary as the causal laws themselves.

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

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

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What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

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It is frequently realised that half the battle is over when we know what are the right questions to ask.

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

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Matter is like a small ripple on this tremendous ocean of energy, having some relative stability and being manifest.

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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.

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Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

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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.

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When we come to light, we are coming to the fundamental activity in which existence has its ground... Light is the potential of everything.

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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

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I would put it another way: people had insight in the past about a form of intelligence that had organized the universe and they personalized it and called it "God."

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We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.

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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

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If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

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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.

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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

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Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

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