David Bohm Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

Universe consists of frozen light.

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.

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

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.