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

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

David Bohm
Teaching, Learning, Reality

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

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.

David Bohm
Reality, Long, Mind
Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.47, 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.

David Bohm
Reality, Thinking, Attention
David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.11, Routledge

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.

David Bohm
Independent, Reality, Usual
"On the Intuitive Understanding of Nonlocality as Implied by Quantum Theory". Foundations of Physics, Volume 5, 1975.

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.

David Bohm
Mistake, Reality, Mind
David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.15, 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.

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

David Bohm
Commitment, Reality, Essentials
David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.18, Routledge

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