Charles D. Broad Quotes

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

We live on the leash of our senses.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Live with all of your senses.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Is perception equivalent to existence?

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

Life is consciousness.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.