Quotes from Eric Butterworth

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Don't go through life; grow through life.

But the greatest mistake is in believing that we are 'only human… ' We are human in expression but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.

why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible

We are human in expression but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.

I SEE THE WORLD, NOT AS IT IS, BUT AS I AM, AND I AM IN SPIRITUAL UNITY WITH GOD.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.

This challenge did not come to stay. "It came to pass. "No matter how real or substantial it seemed to be, it would pass away, just as every other undesirable situation before it had done. It had come to bring me something I needed for my own growth. But now it would pass on into oblivion.

The child who is taken only as he is—whose potentiality is ignored or slighted—remains where he is, or even slides backward. But the child who is treated as if he is already what he should be, often begins to make the most startling progress to what he can be.

You must still believe that I AM, and then work tirelessly to act the part. You must claim your freedom, realizing that it does not mean doing what you like, but becoming what you should.

Man is not in the world to set it right but to see it rightly, and right seeing is the passport from illusion to the heaven of accomplishment. If you want to change the world, or to be an influence for such a change, you must begin within yourself by changing the way you see the world. Get back to the principle—a whole Universe, a whole man.

When enough people get this training, and develop the ability to see from God-consciousness and to project this consciousness by seeing the depth in every experience and dealing with the highest in every man, then we will soon begin to progressively unfold the millennium of Heaven on earth.

In Jesus' concept, prayer is not for God, but for you. You pray, not to change something in God-Mind, but in your own.

Cuando te encuentras en una situación aparentemente sin esperanza, es sabio evitar la tendencia de enfatizar la oscuridad del túnel en vez del hecho de que éste tiene luz en ambos extremos.

your creative energy never disappears, the moon never disappears. Yet both can be hidden, not "on.

que hemos llamado "espacio" es realmente una presencia, porque lo que hay es un potencial continuo, unificado, inteligente e inagotable que aquí y allá se precipita a sí mismo como lo que llamamos materia.

Una necesidad es un vaso para ser llenado, mientras que escasez es un estado mental, una limitación en la conciencia.

problemas graves que la humanidad encara hoy pueden resolverse. Sin embargo, la solución tiene que ser espiritual, porque las materiales y las intelectuales ya se han probado y no han dado resultados. Y

All prospective parents should read Kahlil Gibran's excellent treatise "On Children" in his classic book, The Prophet. He says: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

The peace that we desire and need in the world is that which "passeth understanding." It cannot come by treaties or agreements, or by wars and boundary lines. Peace can only come when men become receptive to it and become peacemakers in the process of expressing it from within.