So One Begins To Wonder What Is

If Each One Of Us Can Give Full Attention To What Is Actually ‘blocking’ Communication While He Is Also Attending Properly To The Content Of What Is Communicated, Then We May Be Able To Create Something New Between Us, Something Of Very Great Significance For Bringing To An End The At Present Insoluble Problems Of The Individual And Of Society.

Ego-centeredness Is Not Individuality At All.

The System [of Thought] Doesn't Stay With The Difficult Problem That Produces Unpleasant Feelings. It's Conditioned Somehow To Move As Fast As It Can Toward More Pleasant Feelings, Without Actually Facing The Thing That's Making The Unpleasant Feeling.

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).

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.