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The Content But Not The Process

David Price
4 min readMar 14, 2024

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Sam Brown

We haven’t 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

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The wise stand out because

they see themselves as part of the Whole.

They shine because

they don’t want to impress.

They achieve great things because

they don’t look for recognition.

Their wisdom is contained in what they are,

not their opinions.

They refuse to argue,

so no-one argues with them.

~Lao Tzu

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Water isn’t just for drinking or washing. Water has its own spirit. Water is alive. Water has memory. Water knows how you treat it, water knows you. You should get to know water too.

— Wabinoquay Otsoquaykwan

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Spirituality has a lot to do with attention, with whether we’re really paying attention to how everything flows through us. If we’re not paying attention our thoughts are fixed, but if we’re watching the process in action everything is seen as mutating constantly. The process…

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

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

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