In the world but not of it 

I've never felt so relaxed whilst listening to another human being. He's like a human mug of tea.

the amount of peace I get from this video is incredible. I was able to sleep for a full night without waking up after years of scattered sleep every single night. I’m so grateful to have found this channel. Bless you for keeping these videos coming, they are a real treasure for the soul.

Listening to this man always brings be to tears. Praise God for people like him 💜

I only wish I had John in my life when I was younger , it would have saved me a lot of stress .

We need more John in America!

Nice knowledge, nice life, nice meditation, nice face, nice voice, nice bloke, nice and relaxed !😇😴😴

"A man will renounce any pleasure you like but he will not give up his suffering" Gurdjieff

Greetings from Russia, John and Phil! Thank you both for this conversation.

You are one of the most interesting souls I have ever came across. I just can't get enough. I watch all the video's over & over again. I just wish my partner would take an interest but she just keeps falling to sleep

You both are looking dapper!! So great to see you back :)

Thank you greatly John. Even if you'll never see this. Your mere presence even if artifically reproduced instantly calmed my restlessness and despair.

Hi, I’ve been watching these videos for a while now. Im a shy young guy, 22 and don’t post a lot of comments so apologies for my silence. I’m not particularly religious or really spiritual, but I’m very open minded and there’s something about John and his way of thinking that really helps me with my own self reflection. And that part at the end on following your heart is something I think I really needed to hear from him, as I do have a lot of self doubt around what I should be doing in life at the moment. So thank you, for all the videos You have posted so far.

I got recommended this video from a good friend and im so glad! There is so much wisdom in Johns words. He makes me feel less like a heretic myself 😂

What a delight to spend the morning with two of my favorite people in the world. Thank you for your beautiful wisdom and love. 🙏🏻❤️

Thank you, John.

Thank you john i been needing a message very bad week god bless man.

"If your silence is taken for ignorance, but it doesn't upset you--well, that's the real sign that you have begun to be a philosopher." - Epictetus (AD 55 - 135) Great video, John and Phil! ❤️

Thanks John and Phil from Canada!❤

It is great having you there, Phil. I haven't said this before, for which I'm sorry, but having you there to gently probe John on the meaning of certain phrases, particularly scriptural ones, is extremely helpful in helping me to properly understand what is being discussed. Thank you both for another excellent and thoughtful video.

Simply awesome. Always wait for him. God bless him. Soothes my heart.

God bless you 🙏John and Phil beautiful video thank you ☘

In the morning drinking a cup of coffee and listening Mr. John,s wise words is the best start of my day. Thank you 🙏

Thank you Mr Butler and Phil. Love is the answer, question and meaning of life. ❤️

Glad to see you back in church! Thank you that was very reassuring ❤️

It is such a JOY to listen to your conversation, John and Phil. I laugh when John laughs because his laughter is infectious. And I love it when he looks you straight in the eye. . . . I sense his presence.

And God Bless you back, John! 🙏

It is so good to have John and Phil back in the church. The band is back together. Now, to go on tour........

Thank you John and Phil. Whenever I hear John speak like this I am in tears because so many things he says resonates with my experiences. I've never felt or treated as part of this world.... 😭 but there is now hope for me too. 👍

God bless you, John. Great, to see you and Phil, once more, in Bakewell church.

Thank you John 😊

Brazil loves your voice, your soul... We love you!!! 🤎🇧🇷

Thank you John💕

Lovely 🥰

love you both. thank you for this 🙏💫

Absolutely in agreement with you John, Godbless and love you too.x

Phil, your hair is spectacular 😊 Not particularly spiritual of me to say, but I think it's fab and thought you should know!

I don’t wish for it but it is comforting to know that someone so well developed has gone through being disliked by their church.

To be not of the world is to walk by faith, and not by sight, and not know anything like the dead knows nothing.

Hi John! Yours words is the best song of the birds and the Song of the arc Celestial of Angels! Thanks Since Brazil🙏🏻😍

Hey John! I’ve been watching your videos for a while now, and they’ve helped me stay close to God. Alas, as guaranteed, I’ve hit a pretty big roadblock in the journey of life. Thus, I offer to you a story. I’ve been spending many hours of my free time thinking. That’s how I battle my doubts, and if I fail I turn to faith. But recently, I seem to be so contemplative about everything (life included) that it’s giving me anxiety. Sometimes I fear that I’ll never wake up if I fall asleep. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve lost all energy, and despair looms before me. I’m only 18 and just started college- the next few decisions I make determine the outcome of my entire life. But watching this video has really helped me understand I’m not the only one who’s suffered; evil has fooled me into thinking I’m alone. Behold, a flicker of hope, though the battle won’t be easy. I’m planning on making meditation a habit now, and I hope to get some stability in my life once again. As you’ve always said: feet on the ground. It’s unfathomable how much of an impact your inspiring words have on others! I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wisdom!

From organic farming to farmer of the heart and spirit what a huge upgrade

How does John seem to be getting younger?

looking good guys and so glad to see ya back at the church...John, you is a blessing, love yas, tks

It's nice to see Phil again.

The church disapproves of me too John. You're in good company.

Good to see you back in the church, the audio is always incredible there! ☺️👌🏼

Ty!

Such precious wisdom that you have freely given us, John and Phil🙏❤️

I have felt the same as you of church. I feel unwanted and misunderstood. God always wants and understands me. May He bless you always.

Ryu - The Darkening - HIT ME "Ryu" means that I am HIT ME, Hit Me All The Way, In Any Way, Anyway. HIT ME Always Works., I Do Not Hit. It Hits All By Itself., Everyone And Everything Has This HIT ME Side In It. The Red Bands., HIT ME., The Hits Are A Fact Of Life And The Key To Enlightenment., I Die For It. A Sacrifice For Love., The Way Out Of The Abyss. So we are what hits us and what we suffer from. "The Darkening" symbolizes the opposite of "The Enlightenment". Yet these two opposites are one. Because we are all at the same time darkened and enlightened. But "The Darkening"'s dominant form is the nature of suffering while "The Enlightenment"'s dominant form is the nature of blissfulness. And the all-encompassing being "A" holds the unity of all there is, "The Darkening" and "The Enlightenment". While... "HIT ME, Hit Me All The Way, In Any Way, Anyway. HIT ME Always Works., I Do Not Hit. It Hits All By Itself., Everyone And Everything Has This HIT ME Side In It. The Red Bands., HIT ME., The Hits Are A Fact Of Life And The Key To Enlightenment., I Die For It. A Sacrifice For Love., The Way Out Of The Abyss." can be seen as the relationship with suffering and the hits. The Words I am using as mantra's and affirmations and also the names for the soundtracks I connected these words and their real experiences with: Ryu - The Darkening - HIT ME Ryu - The Darkening - Hit Me All The Way, In Any Way, Anyway. Ryu - The Darkening - HIT ME Always Works. Ryu - The Darkening - I Do Not Hit. It Hits All By Itself. Ryu - The Darkening - Everyone And Everything Has This HIT ME Side In It. Ryu - The Darkening - The Red Bands (The red bands are bands I am holding on, to transfer the verbal or physical hits from someone or something into my hands. For when I cannot use the words in a direct "HIT ME" experience. Those are bands I am wearing around my forehead and my wrists. They help me deal and heal with the hits.) Ryu - The Darkening - HIT ME Ryu - The Darkening - The Hits Are A Fact Of Life And The Key To Enlightenment. Ryu - The Darkening - I Die For It - A Sacrifice For Love (Things I did wrong and the practice of redeeming myself) Ryu - The Darkening - The Way Out Of The Abyss HIT ME This quote from the joker actor Heath Ledger from "The Dark Knight" made an enormous impact on me and inspired me to create a philosophy. It helped me making peace with all of that. Through practices of any kind. I have learned to love my trauma, my illness, my feelings, my thoughts, my conflicts, my life and ultimately my suffering. The hits are a fact of life and the key to enlightenment. A hit affects you, internally or superficially. Everyone and everything has this "HIT ME" side in it. And if you set your life expectation to "HIT ME", it always works and you will never be disappointed that way. Because something always hits you. Even if you don't want to be hit by something, it still hits you. Hence, it still works as a life expectation. It even works when positive things hit you. Like soft raindrops or a soap bubble. Same as joy or bliss. Hit me all the way, in any way, anyway. If you devote yourself to such an idea, you decipher the path to enlightenment. This is a good reason to follow the path of loving our suffering as it brings great benefit to one. From ourselves, when we don't want to be hit and don't want to take in the hits, to the desire to be hit and take in the hits. It always works, regardless of the form. As Bruce Lee said: "Be unconsciously conscious or consciously unconscious". Once one has developed a certain level of this practice, one masters the suffering and becomes truly enlightened. I am quoting Bruce Lee again: "I do not hit. It hits all by itself." The Way Out Of The Abyss Only when we can accept what we want to let go, can we let go of what we want to accept. A peaceful mind is the cure for restlessness. And love is the cure for a broken spirit. Pain is strength in disguise waiting, to be revealed. And It takes a lot of strength to cry. Because when we cry, we open up to the pain that we experience. When all the waves come crashing down on you, there is faith to get you through. Express your belief into reality and believe in it. This is how you get through the waves. We make mistakes, because we are not perfect. And for that fact I am grateful, that I make mistakes. Remember the solution to any problem is the problem itself. It came into existence and it will not leave you. A sacrifice for love, is a sacrifice worth dying for. We don't have to undo what we do wrong in this life. We die for it and thus, sacrifice ourselves for love. So live for the truth and die for the lie. Die for your negative qualities and live for your positive qualities. That is the sacrifice and the salvation of the human spirit. The guilt we feel is that, which enslaves us. Only when we also remember our innocence, are we free at the same time. There is nothing in this universe, that can harm a mad person. Except making the mad person even more insane, through harm. When you are ready to take in all the hits, in order to gain strength from it and at the same time you are ready to pass on all the love out of compassion to others; one will be as strong as a demon and as compassionate as an angel. A demonic angel. A victory is achieved, by resolving the battles within. If you give up fighting yourself and instead start absorbing yourself, you will be invincible. When you change the powers that hold you back, into the powers that hold your back, you will be unstoppable. You are an example of what a human being is capable of. Take in the hits and use them, as fuel for Ascension. The greatest bliss is found when you make peace with your suffering. Because suffering is the root of blissfulness. If you love your suffering, blissfulness arises. And blissfulness is the key, to heaven on earth. If you can defeat yourself, by loving yourself, your fears, your pain and ultimately your suffering; then it will transform you and you will be reborn. In order to overcome suffering, one has to become suffering oneself. Because when you are one with all, you are bound by nothing and therefore free from everything. And through becoming one with suffering you master it. The journey to enlightenment is a process, that involves a lot of suffering. But in the end every moment of suffering will be worth it. Because choosing to suffer consciously is the springboard, to enlightenment. That's how you remember your origin and you begin to embody it. Because where there is suffering, the love spark resides and the fire is kindled where God, or Consciousness enters and spreads out. Become Ryu, the dragon. Become suffering. Be in a relationship with HIT ME from sadness to madness and become HIT ME and the hits yourself. And Ryu, the dragon spreads its wings and rises. Thus he finds the way out of the abyss.c

More, more! I just love these videos, and get excited at the thought of new releases. There's one thing I'd love to get John talking more on -- Genesis speaks of the world as good. And as John says Jesus so loved the world. Yet wasn't of it. There are different sense of loving the world is what John broached, and I'd love to hear more of that. There is a belief that the world reflects its Creator, a sensus divinitatis in all of creation. So we're called to love it but in service terms as John points out. When he spoke about Kabul John said there was nothing he could do...but I'm sure John would do something for someone if he or she was in need or great need and John COULD do something.... I do believe he has a Russian temperament which is inclined to a more nihilistic view of the world. Some of us have-- are predisposed that way. I'm like John, growing up and not feeling of this world. My own mother told me I wasn't (as if it were not a good thing!) But I think I have a more embracing view of the world as good, although the suffering in it is abominable (as John often has said) it can be hard to reconcile that with the world as good. Yet it's how we grow and change, through suffering. Thanks so much, John, and Phil for what you do in facilitating all of this.

In the world but not of it”. When the mind is established in pure consciousness we live and move in the world but there is no attachment to it, there is a sense it is not real and we sto taking it seriously and stop suffering over the worlds impermanence since we know ourself to be eternal and unmoving, beyond birth and death

RIP him 🙏

“ one man in unity consciousness is worth more than a thousand generations of do Gooders “. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Proud to say I've bn hear from the start of John's journey on the Internet and it was the best mistake I've ever made all hail the king of relaxation... #feetontheground ❤️

God is talking to us through you, dear Mr. Nothing. Thank you for shining his light onto us. Love, love love for you. Thank you .

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering.

To be in the World but not of the World is to keep your eyes on the goal. To be focused on Jesus, to imitate him in every way possible. A renewing of your mind and heart. Be heavenly minded so that your no earthly good as this is not our home but just passing through.

I might add that Phil too is a gem...thank you Phil💖. Would you ever come to the United States?

While I know that John and talk and broadcast his wisdom virtually anywhere, it just seems so fitting to do so from that gorgeous church.

God bless you John 🙏❤

such a delight of a "John Butler" video! much thanks to you and John, much appreciated.

John represents the real church

This man has had a lifetime of pain and loneliness. The demons he has faut. My son lives as he has lived. Anger and frustration and loneliness. I pray for his happiness and peace. ❤️

I love your advice and listening to your views on issues. But that person who's playing table tennis in the background needs a new place to play😂

WHAT a wonderful, w♡nderful talk !! So enjoyed every single minute of it. Thank you from 1 old heart to another !

I love John's beautiful voice, when I first heard it on the video when he was on the farm expressing his love the land, I love it again now expressing deeper spiritual truths, and his twinkling eyes and his laughter. He speaks from the heart which is so refreshing.

I have never felt silence, ring out like a bell. Silence speaks and it screams volumes. SILENCE. I am a living witness

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. If your a person 'of the world' - you live and long for worldly rewards - things like: money, fame, importance, popularity, ALL self serving pursuits. If your 'not of this world' - you are a child of God, one that has made a conscious decision to be led by Jesus and to serve him above ALL else.

Can you please do a video for people going through a breakup?

when we lose this jem of the world, itll be like the world when we lost Stan Lee, or Rick May to all you TF2 fans out there

I think it'd be cool if Mr butler and Jordan peterson had a discussion. I feel that Mr Butler has grasped the inner peace and belief that Jordan has been struggling to find for so long

Seems to never have really answered the question as it was repeatedly asked..only kept talking about the physical aspect of it although the man kept trying to keep getting him away from talking about himself

Oh so lovely to see you both back and both looking well, John you are very much appreciated and personally I identify with everything you say, thank you x

this is a nice and pleasant change to what I have been seeing on the internet, thank you for your peace.

Nice to see you back at the House you go John 👍

A state that outlaws religion in times of crises will fall.

I discovered you John and Phil a few years ago . Thank you for taking the time to bring such love and wisdom to the world. Who would have thought three years ago that the world would be where it is now. God bless you both.

lights took me home and the fire warms my bones and you fixed me, John 😊♡

Personally , I think you and your mates are totally rocking it right now and I’m absolutely loving the stuff that you give ( managed to acquire a tee shirt and your book “ Mystic Burning”,the feel is consistent, Thank you John , for helping me somehow .D

This world comes to pass but real things are eternal XXX

“One person in unity consciousness is worth more than a thousand generations of do-gooders “. maharishi Mahesh. yogi

I’ve never heard a more relaxing heretic

John your a True visionary 🙏💚🙏

I am still working things out, And struggling to work things out, but something John said in this video clicked, And my interpretation is that “Spirit is like the water in the ocean, in the ocean it is all one in the same, you can’t tell where water starts and ends amongst a sea. Then we turn away from god and we are sucked up and away, and dumped down on earth, we are then absorbed by the earth, and we then eventually make our way back to the ocean after being through our trials and tribulations and twists and turns of what the earth throws at us”.

Glad to hear back from you from the church again! This is the great formula since John’s 1 st video was recorded there. Kind regards.Kam

I was with John at 18K. Now almost 200K. Amazing

That's exactly how I see and experience it . I am on this world , but its not my home because I know where my home is ! And will join my father and the son Jesus Christ when my time come to pass over . But for now My eyes are focused on eternity .

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” J. Krishnamurti

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

What a precious man!

Lovely to see you back in bakewell church where I watched my first video of John and my first ever meditation his "no nonsense guide to meditation" Much love from Ireland ❣❣ P.s loving the hair Phil!!

Thank you

I like you John. I know but I find the words to convey what you speak of lack. I just wanted to interject that meditation as spoken of in the scripture isn’t really an emptying of the mind but a filling of the mind with Spirit of God and his thoughts. “Happy is the man whose imagination is stayed on the Lord. “ the quote is from Isaiah. You will find the original Hebrew would say imagination and not mind. We are charged to renew our minds. So that it won’t be us that lives but Christ through us. Jesus is God, he and the Father are one. God from God. What a precious gesture the infinite God would take in Human nature and impart his spirit nature to us. He becomes human and we become god. That may be disturbing to some but he does it in a way it’s him not us. God bless you and those seeking a true relationship with our Father. May the eyes of your understanding be opened. Amen

One of the first organic farmers♥,gosh my heart felt so happy & warm towards you, thankyou John & Phil, from Belgium

Que maravilha agora com legenda

At 31:10, when Phil mentioned the parkin cake, I had to look it up, since I had never heard of it. It sounds delicious! I'll have to make some one of these days.

This guy is the real-life Qui-Gon Jinn.

I think John's neighbors must have been dumb as a brick. Or, they didn't have their feet on the ground.

a true gem