Spiritual Unfoldment With John Butler
Jun 25, 2026 · 45 min · 10 segments
Whether we look beyond clouds to the open sky above or into the deep earth beneath, beyond these few agitated years of life we come to rest. Meditation is just a way of looking at the sky within…
John ButlerHost
Phil ShanklandHost
Well, whatever the world is, however distant, own mind, I find it's a marvellous thing just to look out of the window.
If you're not, if you're outside, just look up at the sky because even on a stormy day with the clouds being blown across the sky, At rest it seems, doesn't it? It's just unmoving.
The clouds and then down below the world is moving, the wind is blowing, but up there it's still.
And conversely, the other way, going down into the earth, well, the blessed earth is at rest.
this few hurried years of life, hurried and what worried years of life, we come to rest, don't we? And even a third way in which we may find rest is if we practice meditation, which is really just a rather contrived way of looking at the sky within oneself.
And the whole practice of meditation is like really a method of just going through the confusion of the mind to the rest which is beyond it.
Well, whatever the world is, however distant, own mind, I find it's a marvellous thing just to look out of the window.
If you're not, if you're outside, just look up at the sky because even on a stormy day with the clouds being blown across the sky, At rest it seems, doesn't it? It's just unmoving.
The clouds and then down below the world is moving, the wind is blowing, but up there it's still.
And conversely, the other way, going down into the earth, well, the blessed earth is at rest.
this few hurried years of life, hurried and what worried years of life, we come to rest, don't we? And even a third way in which we may find rest is if we practice meditation, which is really just a rather contrived way of looking at the sky within oneself.
And the whole practice of meditation is like really a method of just going through the confusion of the mind to the rest which is beyond it.
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