The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
Eric ButterworthDiligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe.
Eric ButterworthWe have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him.
Eric ButterworthThe goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.
Eric ButterworthJesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered.
Eric ButterworthA true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.
Eric ButterworthWhile many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
Eric ButterworthReligious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present
Eric ButterworthWhere you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Eric ButterworthI tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.
Eric ButterworthThe great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.
Eric Butterworth...within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe.
Eric Butterworth