31 Memorable Eric Butterworth Quotes on Living In The Moment

It’s not often that we feature an individual who focuses on the sphere of unity and spiritual growth. However, it’s in this space that we’re best able to live in the moment and recharge our batteries.

No one can truly work 24 hours per day at peak performance. It’s actually Eric Butterworth’s work that helped us transition to a 4-day work week as a company, much to the praise of the Execute Resources team.

Now, you may never get the time to read his books but his thought-provoking quotes regularly circulate around social media. It’s taken us now several hours to put the best quotes by Eric Butterworth together so we hope you enjoy these as much as we enjoyed creating this.

1. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

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2. Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

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3. Don’t go through life, grow through life.

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

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

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6. The child who is taken only as he is – whose potentiality is ignored or slighted – remains where he is, or even slides backward.

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

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

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9. 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.

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

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11. 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.

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12. 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.

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13. The first step is—they must call themselves sons of God. This is the action step: call yourself a child of God. Affirm for yourself that you are divine in potential. Declare for yourself: “I am a spiritual being with the potential for peace and harmony and overcoming within me at all times. I am a radiating center of divine light, life and wisdom.” In this way we keep the light turned on.

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14. 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.

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

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16. 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.

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

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

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19. 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.

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20. Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

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

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

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23. Who giveth love to all, Pays kindness for unkindness, smiles for frowns, Lends new courage to each fainting heart, And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad, He, too, is a Redeemer, Son of God.

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

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25. 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.

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26. We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

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27. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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28. One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; ’Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.

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29. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

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30. 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.

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

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