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