Eric Butterworth Quotes

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, successful, and possessed of the patience and stability to keep on moving in the direction of your dreams. "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your idea is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

The 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.

The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good.

God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

When your mind is functioning correctly, there is an out streaming of light from within in the form of inspiration, hunches, leadings, and intuitive flashes - trust this process of inspiration. “In the twinkling of an eye” ideas and plans may flow into your mind.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Infinite Mind will put ideas into your mind, words into your mouth, creativity into your hands, boundless opportunity before you, and guiding light on your way.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

The whole of God is present at every point in space at the same time. Take time to meditate on this great idea. In other words, God doesn't come and go. God doesn't capriciously move substance from God's supply "up there" to fill your needs "down here." Nor does God answer prayer in some kind of coming forth. God is always present, totally present - as a Presence.

Religious 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

A 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.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

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.

...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.

The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.

Affluence = abundant flow.

I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe.

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

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

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

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

Love so that you may actually be what you innately are.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

All things are possible to God and to you in God-consciousness.

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

You can have all you can expect and accept.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.

The 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.

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

The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part.