Eric Butterworth Quotes

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.

I've never been particularly religious, but I have recently acknowledged the universe and it's crazy powers, and that will probably fluctuate for the rest of my life.

The universe is within us. We forget that and make up realities for ourselves that we are small and insignificant. Meditation brings us back to our natural state of consciousness.

Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.