The true artist

[@toddsqui]

"There is nothing that is not art to the true artist." So inspiring. ♥ ♥ ♥!

[@robbiepeterh]

Don’t forget to thank Phil, the unsung hero ☺️

[@ChiMasterMedia]

I never wanted to grow old especially after going to care homes 🏡 but John makes me want to grow old gracefully.

[@MysticSoulHealth]

That’s beautiful Chi. ❤️

[@greenytoaster]

@@MysticSoulHealth indeed

[@youtubeisnow1984]

I will never forget this man. You've helped me many times with your words and insights Mr. Butler. God bless you!

[@warriorsamongstmen]

May all who read this receive the miracle all the blessings they deserve, you are worthy, your are loved, you are ready 👽💚💫

[@wardjunior1450]

Heavens gate

[@radchiken4812]

love to you! leave out that Nephilim tho brother haha stay blessed

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

Thank you 😊 I prayed for a miracle while hiking beneath the stars a couple nights ago. It's all I can do.

[@tripzville7569]

Beautiful post my unknown friend. Join us as we do our little bit using our music and messages to shine some light in these twisted and upside down times. TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER.

[@happyhappyjoyjoy1860]

You too dear 💜Pls all dont stop and continue searching you will find.

[@Aletta-ThisMoment]

Dearest John, this was truly a spectacular response to the letter by James. Thank you for these wise words!

[@themightymutt6653]

Ooh my God. The sound of running water along side John's amazing voice. The ultimate relaxation combo

[@3tapsnu0ut87]

I heard the stream and saw the breeze and focused on the silent, still warmth of the sunlight. Mmmmmm, just joining in as a witness. Elderly people have for too long been denied their wisdom. But not you, thankfully. Yes, feeling the presence is a mute-full blessing. The less of me the easier the transition and silent sense of fulfilment in the wonder of creation. Life itself and all I do is a work that lives within that creation, mine to believe, to care and to quietly thrive in. That is love.

[@matt_cummins28]

Mark Rothko said of his pictures "People who weep in front of my paintings are having the same spiritual experience I had when I painted them."

[@foekist7312]

Anyone who breaks down and cries over a Rothko painting; needs help.

[@dillonshea4268]

But there is good art you know.

[@skeleburg]

Everyone get this man 100k by the end of the year he deserves it all.

[@shaggy2dope666]

One of the best videos, yet. So excellent!

[@lyndahayley7382]

God bless you John. I pray you are not suffering physically. I have been in constant pain for 30 years..and your teachings have helped tremendously.🙏🏻

[@jessicasalo3287]

Well John, as it turns out "that WAS one hell of a video", and it did indeed create positive change in the world ;) Great gratitude, deep respect, and endless blessings to you and Phil both for having the courage, foresight, generosity and initiative to record and preserve this divinely inspired wisdom on video to share with all the world. You're work is incalculably valuable. Thank you so so so so much!!!

[@martaaldama6419]

Thank you, Phil, for giving us Sir John Butler. He deserves a royal title. 👏🌷❤️

[@delphinoproductions2655]

Pure calm and bliss whenever I watch these videos...

[@joantollifson7408]

Oh my, that was gorgeous, John. The way it began...the invitation to see the invisible and hear the silence...the gurgling stream...your words...the presence....the art of boiling an egg or cleaning the flat...this was stunning. Thank you and God bless you, dear friend. 🙏❤️🌅

[@BrodoBaggins-5D]

Artists’ lives, at the core, is their art. The having to express anything is the acknowledgment of and celebration of an inability to contain anything. It is an expression of the Divine itself, shared with others out of Love and wonderment for all that is. I am a 50 year old man from Midwest America. The moment I watched one of John’s KZbin videos and heard his voice resonating with my innermost being I recognized how genuine he is and subsequently fell in love with him. Thank you to all for creating and sharing these videos.

[@thepaulmacfarlane]

Than you John for this bucolic wisdom, simple, deep and human. Thanks and gratitude for you. Now and forever.

[@kaseyserna4119]

When personal problems are something others go through as well, I feel better. Because we’re going through it together.

[@christinecampbell6208]

what a gift this man is to us

[@victoriamariahendel.offiziell]

Imagine: Going for a walk with Mr Butler, sitting on a bank and talking about life, God,....💯

[@SivSeran]

hint: you can do that whitt almost any human...

[@victoriamariahendel.offiziell]

@@SivSeran ...but not any human is John Butler.

[@carrick2494]

We are one at heart

[@mario_vdls]

I'd much rather sit on a bench

[@HumbleWordsmith]

Great idea. I wonder perhaps if it could be organised. Like an outdoor monthly walk and barbecue perhaps. Maybe Johns cameraman/editor could read this and organise something

[@tanyamir09]

Privet John! You've said it all. Being broken and humble, being so hungry to experience the essence of Pure consciousness, pure heart, pure Divine is a driven force to create. Blessings to all creations! Blessings to you.

[@dalo4987]

blessings to you always john

[@Herkimerdiamond]

When the eyes of John look to the ground for a couple of seconds... all his teaching is transmitted... just like when ramana stayed silent and just looking the infinite... John is presence. ❤️

[@MysticSoulHealth]

I Love You John! I will say that in all my messages! 👇🏻🌈💝I’m not sure how I discovered your videos but they bring me the DEEPEST COMFORT. You are a True Sage. Thank you for contributing your PEACE, LOVE, KINDNESS and WISDOM to this World! I feel so Blessed to have discovered you🙏🏻

[@fairweatherfriends.]

Phil , this is the best spot since the church. The babbling brook is perfect. Hope you guys can get back to this spot..

[@arctic3032]

As an actor, instructor and director, I can say for sure that these are words of profound wisdom. Whenever I have struggled with imposter syndrome or stage fright, I remember to center myself in the moment and go with the flow.

[@Masa_まさ]

I'm sorry. I'm Japanese and I don't understand the English he speaks. But I am very healed just by looking at him. I subscribed to his channel.

[@CrankyRayy]

Welcome

[@elizabethsmithsenger158]

So cool! I bet he loves that!

[@liliannapaxton]

John ... my heart is bursting at the seams ...for you my friend .. are light, love, hope, sweetness, truth, a true spiritual teacher feeding that part of me - that is part of you .. that encompasses spirit, transcends time and space ... filling .. lifting ... healing ... lovely John...(and Phil too!!) Thank you for your humble sweet kind honest spirit .. you are a golden ray into my tiny portion of this planet ... expanding and bursting through.. nay tearing down .. the boundaries of the "fences" we create.. joining us all together .. in love light hope sweetness and truth .. Blessed day to you .. and James .. thank you for such a lovely letter and question. I personally think you did very well in expressing this very difficult question.. not brittle at all .. it bubbled up from your heart that question did.

[@rosiesantos1412]

I surrender to God and the Holy Spirit. I want to see the light. Less of me and more of him. Thank you Sir. Blessings to you. 😇🙏❤❤❤💞💞💞

[@tripzville7569]

Beautiful. Join us, TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER.

[@s.confidential3993]

and God Bless you as well, John. When I first virtually "met you" I fell in love with your spirit in a profound way. I needed to listen to you more to find out why I had felt this way. Today I know- because you say the truth so that I can understand. But also you say it with a voice that calms me and makes me feel so "safe and secure" if that makes any sense at all. Thank you for your videos- they have helped me more than words can say. I really needed you when somehow I found you. This is as simple as I can explain : )

[@happyhappyjoyjoy1860]

How you contacted him?I need help.Pls if you can tell me.Im on this path.

[@s.confidential3993]

@@happyhappyjoyjoy1860 Hi sweetie. I virtually met him by watching one of his videos. I did not actually meet him, although I wish I could! It was a virtual acknowledgement of him, so I called it "virtually meeting him". I am terribly sorry to mislead. I was feeling a bit poetic at the moment when I wrote the message. He is absolutely wonderful, isn't he! I wish the best to you.

[@happyhappyjoyjoy1860]

@@s.confidential3993 oh.Yes he is😊Much love darling 💜

[@s.confidential3993]

@@happyhappyjoyjoy1860 Thank you- Much love your way as well :)

[@KingPivot001]

wow! this is one of your best videos yet. I'm a musician and I often feel this way as well. I always hesitate to bring a new song idea out of the vague conceptual realm and start actually writing in the details because it always seems like it was so much more beautiful when it wasn't in focus yet. I've somewhat come to peace with it though, over time you get a little closer to getting it "right" as it were, certainly with God's blessing as you said, and after accepting that it can never be quite right, because you're trying to grasp something infinite and translate it into the finite world we live in.

[@Madhukirtan]

John, I love your videos, I love your intelligence, I love your voice! Thank you for your precious contributions!!

[@bogisudioyoga]

I love him sooo much!!!!! Thank you for your wisdom🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lacroix3931]

I am immeasurably grateful for your content. You have helped me through an addiction that has unfortunately taken my entire adolescence to come to terms with. Hearing that you aren’t always feeling confident in your videos makes me quite sad, because there are thousands of people on this website that only produce content based on trends so they can make money, while you produce content based on what makes YOU happy so that you can help and relate to others. There’s no better use of the internet than that.

[@Tvidstein]

Thomas Mann, Baudelaire, Else Lasker Schüler...ganz hervorragendes Video, John

[@markusmeyer6391]

I love you John, tears in my eyes from the emotions. I love you!

[@lunadeb]

It IS conveyed, dearest John....⚘

[@bw2442]

I come from a very materialistic upbringing and feel often a failure because I don’t have lots of Stuff or a lot of money or a great job or friends. I am growing deeper in the presence and delight in the simplicity and humility and life giving that flows from your videos. I always tried to force myself to achieve things so just being is a whole new walk. Thank you John

[@onenessseeker5683]

You & Phil are lovely. . I love you both great video

[@tripzville7569]

Love your name 'Oneness seeker' . You may enjoy our and understand some of our music and messages. Join us TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER.

[@emotionwave]

What a beautiful and true response. I absolutely agree and am in awe at your wisdom, John. God bless.

[@Lenak2266]

🙏✨ Many Thanks John , it's true, " How do we capture beauty? " I have to say your words & Phil's camera work come close ! 🙏🕊💗💫☀🍁🎐🍂✨💫🙏

[@diogogameiro1315]

Mr. John might be one of the wisest men I ever seen I like how you passed your wisdom to this videos it's going to help young people and future Generations to understand the meaning of life and other things God bless you 🇵🇹 from Portugal

[@CrankyRayy]

He has a few videos of his time in Portugal while answering questions actually! "The Portugal Tapes"

[@redroots3103]

"When your heart is bursting with love" is there any need to express it? "All you need is love" ❤ "Love, love, love...there's nothing you can do that can't be done, nothing you can sing that can't be sung..." This song by the Beatles very much comes to mind here concerning the artist who struggles to fully express him/her emotions 💚💚💚

[@ChiMasterMedia]

To the person who wrote the letter ✉ ❤ You are not alone. I feel the same too when I cannot write.

[@ToomieC]

We love and thank you John and Phil! 😘

[@todjohnson7902]

This video really helped me! I've been lost in regards to my own writing and I've never even thought about how "caged" my music has been. Hopefully I can implement a looser mindset when I start and work to glorify God through my writing. God bless y'all and thank you for the video!

[@mmmfun77]

Absolutely INCREDIBLE message. Thank you both ! ❤

[@reijo437]

Great John. Reminds me of icon writing - can only be done without me.

[@dleve1467]

I can feel both of you being committed too our wellbeing. Thank you

[@shelleyclack1016]

That was wonderful! I couldn’t stop smiling after “I’ve always been a total failure with people.” 😃 Very “inspiring” video John...

[@DanielHillCoaching]

I love watching these John and Phil, thank you 🙏 John is such a wonderful example of how evolved an Enneagram type 6 can become (Phil if you read these, I think you are too, like Ian McKay who filmed from Conscious TV - I know and studied with his nephew Alex many moons ago in London). I recommend John's videos to many of my Enneatype 6 clients as "homeplay"... There is such groundedness, serenity, valiance. It is a joy to behold and witness the true meaning of FAITH, that which that can only be discovered beyond the questioning egoic-mind. How so extraordinarily peaceful - and simple it is... Feet on the ground, look and listen. I loved the part in this where the humility was he questions to Phil whether he did a good enough job with the video? Beautiful! So human. So honest. So humble. How the world would be if this was what we deemed "success" as. And so it is, may consciousness continue to unfold 😇🙏❤️

[@organaut]

Indeed, probably the greatest music lesson I learned of late is that when I play the keyboards it is the space and silence between and containing the sounding notes which gives life and breath to the music and allows it to flow like the river behind John in this video. I wish I was aware of this 20 years ago. A great video John..really enjoyed this and the person who wrote you that letter touched on so much realisation of how stillness/awareness cannot be put into language and at best, only a pointer to the reality.

[@guttersnippeesmithers3905]

A true gentleman

[@shaf1175]

And of course many thanks to John. So soothing to listen to him and coming into the presence

[@samuelmcgovern]

To make whole, be whole. To make art, be art.

[@sukisalix1037]

Thank you John. Your presence is inspiration to so many of us.

[@unugeorge]

Thank you for being.

[@guywouters5021]

John, you have such a beautifull, authentic, long lasting laugh. Where myself couldn't get a smile over my lips in the same situations. What makes you laugh so much and so long. I have something to learn here. Thank you. Guy

[@garyparker1220]

Hey John, I just want to say, good job man on this speech you gave us and me. Your videos have helped me out 😊

[@TeeaGoansMusic]

The Lord used you today, my friend. I’m thankful He led me to your interpretation of His word. Many blessings!

[@jcjs33]

you guys are a heavenly hoot...everybody trying to receive and give 'attention' (love)...not give and get but give and receive with gratitude, attention...Phil , love the new camera and locales...wonderful you guys display such a plethora of pleasant 'surroundings' and immersiions (inside the church...the graves around the church and the stones...the lambs and fields and sky....the verdant green God, eh....John Butlers grand daughter could be Anna Brown....Papaji, Mooni, Tohlee, Russell Brand and most of the other guru guys are in 'buildings'..often 'structures presenting and representing 'something'....Anna Brown and you are the guys i most dig...Anna's green , attired , beauty of everything...and ya can catch her deep anger and pain overcome and still being lived with....young and old...funny, a sentence popped yesterday saying 'the cure for aging is now close at hand.....'....i'm 78 and , with my agingness , i'm younger , 'inside' than most anyone i meet around me....there's a Corona beer commercial says 'if you don't like what you see, look at it differently'...i love that the phrase comes from a Corona beer commercial at 'thig time'...i just love life and the weirdos in it....John, Happy Thanksgiving...you drop a lot of joy bombs of a lot of creatures....thanks from Oregon, USA

[@liliannapaxton]

love this John Smith .." i'm 78 and , with my agingness , i'm younger , 'inside' than most anyone i meet around me....there's a Corona beer commercial says 'if you don't like what you see, look at it differently'.." Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.!

[@mariamachado3371]

Thank you, it,s always a pleasure to see you and listen to your blessed words 🙏

[@kimberlypayetta3476]

That was beautiful John, thank you. ❤

[@justbiz62]

Your videos John are deeply appreciated ☆♡

[@bishfam1]

I don't think I've seen a video that has touched me more. Thank you so much. I've been really struggling lately with the same thing this person wrote to you about. Feeling like my words cannot express my deepest emotions ect. Also.. with my art. Thank you for this. I now understand. Now I can put it all to rest and not 'fight' with it anymore. God bless you.

[@rainingwords5775]

I cannot tell you just how much I needed to hear this too 🙏💖 Thank you so sooo much for such a Great Kind Loving Wise and Encouraging advice full of Truth and Wisdom as always Thanks so much to the person for his letter and question God Bless him and his writings and all reading this God Bless you too my dearest John and Phil Love and Blessings and Gratitude for the guidance 🙏💕🌞

[@WhiteErFox]

Around 12:16... I just got reminded of how much that sounded like Tao.

[@Hells54]

So beautiful and needed x a lesson I needed x thank you dear John x love Helen x

[@shaf1175]

Thank you Phil

[@meekomania457]

Very humbling to say he wasn't perhaps great at the videos and wondering if did he do all right. Humility is one of the attributes of spirit and John has it.

[@luisquintero7567]

I just discovered this man and all I have to say is bless him and his pure soul

[@jeffschultz1219]

Always feel at peace after watching one of your videos 😌. Have a Merry Christmas🎄and god bless 🙏🏻❤️

[@eppityrrell8236]

Wow so relaxing I nearly fell asleep keep doing the great work John love to meet you some day 💚

[@sebastianmueller4187]

Good to see you Mr. Butler :)

[@hightower6546]

Thank you, John.

[@ninesfm6817]

thank you, sir....

[@tomekgorniak]

God bless you.

[@katerinathanou1828]

Thank you!💜✨

[@TRENDINGVIDEOSTRV]

Love the content john!!

[@Herkimerdiamond]

I love the music....

[@simpleuser0001]

Just got in for another John Butler video

[@baptm727]

This man is zen

[@maspoetry1]

won't pass through without saying thanks. thank you guys, both. can't really collaborate with a donation, but will share the video

[@gretanavarauskaite2904]

🙏🏻❤️🌸

[@karelynistvan5621]

always an amazing day when you upload. have a blessed day :)

[@lindy-ps7vy]

love you x

[@PussVelvetZelda]

Beautiful setting.

[@anitam7547]

I gave up my creative writing when I realised that I thought (mainly) in words. I had disregarded my intuition until I had put words to it - and therefore misdirected it. I went back to my artwork. I like to paint what I 'see' whether it makes 'sense' or not. One piece is called: two archetypes in the graveyard of mediocre artwork. I had no ideas for a title until it 'revealed' itself to me. Hahahaha! It's way more fun :o)

[@aaronturner9976]

big boss butler

[@PObserver]

I suppose I'll doxx myself. I'm the "James" or erroneously attributed "John" as he first mentions my email in this video. First and foremost, I want to say that Butler is a saint on Earth. I'd wrote this to him when I was in a very tough time. Many injuries still last from this period in my life; I'd alienated someone irreconcilably. Things as of now are better; though writing, and the errant task of "capturing" ideas is still a enduring challenge. Thanks all, for the kind words. Thank you John; we will meet again someday, somewhere, sometime, as will we all. God bless. To the alienated and wronged soul -- I am sorry but there is nothing that will ever communicate the pain.

[@lavettar]

Thank you.

[@lesliebeckwith2483]

my e-motions run shallow since i stopped sleeping 2 years ago. i am wide awake all day and night. this upsets me but i also NEVER cry.

[@lesliebeckwith2483]

@Marta Aldama Cervantes thanks

[@jcjs33]

I laugh and tear up rarely. So what cease self lambast there is nothing to cry about tee hee paper lift from face

[@lesliebeckwith2483]

@@jcjs33 what if someone dies?

[@davebrady2389]

Eat more food. Drink more water. Take more naps. Cut back the drug use a little. Get off the phone and live like there is a tomorrow. 🖤

[@lesliebeckwith2483]

@@davebrady2389 thats sounds so poetic for some reason. i don't sleep.

[@hilabar3977]

This is an issue I have been addressing lately, and the ultimate answer I've arrived at is that nothing can express that which is so deep and divine such as emotion. I have looked at the various options we have in artistic expression, such as dance, painting, writing, music etc in an attempt to discern which is the highest form of expression. I believe there is a hierarchy, as words, for example, are limited. The highest form, however, is just silence and acceptance :) Thank you for this wonderful video!

[@katedahan2074]

Thank yo🤗

[@MrGana2]

How to deal with fear of passing by? The time is passing, no one can stop it, and it's terryfying.

[@DorothyPotterSnyder]

It’s better to be humble than to be proud… To rest in being. Another idea for the letter writer: don’t worry if it doesn’t measure up to your own idea. Art isn’t about reproducing reality, who needs that? It’s about offering your take on it. We as writers never know when our words will accompany or touch another. As John says, just keep trying!

[@iian724]

❤

[@lennysetser2045]

I have been trying to get more spiritual but I really can't calm the mind. I also love John's outlook on the afterlife. Even I may get into his heaven..

[@yorksracoon3560]

You did alot of videos over the summer.