Ego-centeredness Is Not Individuality At All.

We Have Reversed The Usual Classical Notion That The Independent "elementary Parts" Of The World Are The Fundamental Reality, And That The Various Systems Are Merely Particular Contingent Forms And Arrangements Of These Parts. Rather, We Say That Inseparable Quantum Interconnectedness Of The Whole Universe Is The Fundamental Reality, And That Relatively Independent Behaving Parts Are Merely Particular And Contingent Forms Within This Whole.

There Is A Difficulty With Only One Person Changing. People Call That Person A Great Saint Or A Great Mystic Or A Great Leader, And They Say, 'well, He's Different From Me - I Could Never Do It.' What's Wrong With Most People Is That They Have This Block - They Feel They Could Never Make A Difference, And Therefore, They Never Face The Possibility, Because It Is Too Disturbing, Too Frightening.

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.

A Corporation Is Organized As A System - It Has This Department, That Department, That Department... They Don't Have Any Meaning Separately; They Only Can Function Together. And Also The Body Is A System. Society Is A System In Some Sense. And So On.

Dialogue Is Really Aimed At Going Into The Whole Thought Process And Changing The Way The Thought Process Occurs Collectively. We Haven't Really Paid Much Attention To Thought As A Process. We Have Engaged In Thoughts, Put We Have Only Paid Attention To The Content, Not To The Process. Why Does Thought Require Attention? Everything Requires Attention, Really. If We Ran Machines Without Paying Attention To Them, They Would Break Down. Our Thought, Too, Is A Process, And It Requires Attention, Otherwise Its Going To Go Wrong.