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When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But

When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the way you think determines the way you're going to do things. Then you don't notice a result comes back, or you don't see it as a result of what you've done, or even less do you see it as a result of how you were thinking. Is that clear?

David Bohm
Thinking, People, Feelings
Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.17, Routledge

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

David Bohm
People, Feelings, Body
Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.19, Routledge

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

David Bohm
Communication, Feelings, Promise
David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

David Bohm
Fear, Moving, Feelings
Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.33, Routledge

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

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

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