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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

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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

#another #doing #feature #know #major

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

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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 it creates. ↗

— David Bohm

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Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. ↗

— Epictetus

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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ↗