What Is Needed Is To Learn Afresh,

The Question Of Relevance Comes Before That Of Truth, Because To Ask Whether A Statement Is True Or False Presupposes That It Is Relevant (so That To Try To Assert The Truth Or Falsity Of An Irrelevant Statement Is A Form Of Confusion).

Yet, In Spite Of This World-wide System Of Linkages, There Is, At This Very Moment, A General Feeling That Communication Is Breaking Down Everywhere, On An Unparalleled Scale.

Indeed, The Attempt To Live According To The Notion That The Fragments Are Really Separate Is, In Essence, What Has Led To The Growing Series Of Extremely Urgent Crises That Is Confronting Us Today.

When You Are Thinking Something, You Have The Feeling That The Thoughts Do Nothing Except Inform You The Way Things Are And Then You Choose To Do Something And You Do It. That's What People Generally Assume. But Actually, The Way You Think Determines The Way You're Going To Do Things. Then You Don't Notice A Result Comes Back, Or You Don't See It As A Result Of What You've Done, Or Even Less Do You See It As A Result Of How You Were Thinking. Is That Clear?

Real Dialogue Is Where Two Or More People Become Willing To Suspend Their Certainty In Each Other's Presence.