Eric Butterworth

Living The Truth We Know

by | Sep 22, 2016 |

According to renowned Unity minister and author Eric Butterworth, the great challenge of our age is the virtual absence of meditation from our daily lives. Butterworth describes meditation as the “art of lowly listening.” In Unity, the fourth principle teaches that the only space where we may “lowly listen” is in silent meditation. Without making time for silent meditation in our lives, we do not exercise and demonstrate our creative potential; mainly because, we do not make the time to...

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The Greatest Discovery of All Time

by | Sep 10, 2015 | , ,

In the "Foreword to the 40th Anniversary Edition" of Eric Butterworth's spiritual classic, Discover the Power Within You, the esteemed poet Maya Angelou acknowledges her affinity for the compelling idea at the very heart of Butterworth's teachings. Namely, that "the power of God, the essential spirit, is within each of us." This idea is also at the heart of what Butterworth would call the greatest discovery of all time, and is essentially the foundation upon which his celebrated metaphysical...

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How Does Your Light Shine? – (Part II of II)

by | Sep 9, 2011 | ,

So, how does your light shine?From a scientific perspective, light is energy. Light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second. Einstein's theory of relativity, which I do not even pretend to understand, simply states that "energy equals mass times the speed of light squared." It is a challenge for the human mind to wrap itself around a speed of 186,000 miles per second, much less the implications. To the human mind grounded in a physical material world, that kind of speed seems...

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