How To Save The World

David Price
3 min readOct 22, 2020
Art by Bisa Butler

“We are faced with a breakdown of general social order and human values that threatens stability throughout the world. Existing knowledge cannot meet this challenge. Something much deeper is needed, a completely new approach. I am suggesting that the very means by which we try to solve our problems is the problem. The source of our problems is within the structure of thought itself.” — David Bohm

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“When I run after what I think I want, My days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.” — Rumi

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Search for yourself, by yourself. Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. — LAKOTA CODE OF ETHICS

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In India a friend observed; “Krishnamurti went beyond the Buddha by revealing the limitations of time and thought as a means of psychological mutation.” — Michael Mendizza

I’m not “one who knows.” I am a student. I reflect on insights, however they come to me. I turn these questions over and over again until they give up some of their secrets. Sometimes that…

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.