Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems…

Quote by David Bohm

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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has...

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has...

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and...

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and...

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate...

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate...

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that...

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that...

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic...

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic...

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality....

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality....

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is...

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is...

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on...

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on...

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on...

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on...

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it...

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it...

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our...

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our...

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology...

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology...

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose...

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose...

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting,...

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting,...

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it...

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it...

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind...

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind...

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is...

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is...

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new...

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new...