The Best David Bohm quotes

Ultimately, the entire universe…has to be understood as a single undivided whole. — David Bohm

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. — David Bohm

Universe consists of frozen light. — David Bohm

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. — David Bohm

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. — David Bohm

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

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts. — David Bohm

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. — David Bohm

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

Consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. — David Bohm

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. — David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. — David Bohm

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

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

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call ‘sustained incoherence. — David Bohm

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

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. — David Bohm

So the relationship of each moment in the whole to all the others is implied by its total content: the way in which it ‘holds’ all the others enfolded within it. — David Bohm

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

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn’t know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn’t want to know that it is doing it. — David Bohm

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can’t say when that system began. — David Bohm

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — David Bohm

At any particular stage in the development of science, our concepts concerning the causal relationships will then be true only relative to a certain approximation and to certain conditions. — David Bohm

Ego–centeredness is not individuality at all. — David Bohm

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our ‘sense’ than we would care to believe. — David Bohm

If there is listening through a ‘listener,’ then we are not listening. — David Bohm

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. — David Bohm

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. — David Bohm