The Answer Is… MP3 Recording of Robert “Butch” James
Posted by John Harricharan · 8 Comments
Robert "Butch" James
As you set about your journey of becoming a published author, and even a best-selling author, I can’t over-emphasize the importance of having a clear picture in your mind of what it is that you are actually trying to create in life.
What is it that will allow you to truly feel that you are fulfilling your calling and purpose in this world?
Below is a very rare recording of my long-time friend Robert “Butch” James. Butch has led a truly amazing life. He attended Harvard University, and counts among his closest friends some of the most successful, influential, and wealthy individuals on the planet.
Butch attained fortunes in his business ventures, lost them all, lost his health and almost everything he had, and then recovered them again.
He shares in this recording the perspective he gained throughout these experiences, and his insights into the ultimate “Answer” of life.
I have personally listened to this recording on dozens of occasions, and consider it one of my personal treasures.
Listen to it, contemplate its meaning for you, and let it enrich your life as it has mine.
Be sure to comment below to let me know your thoughts!
Important Note: The quality of this recording is not the best, but the message contained in it is priceless!
Thank you for directing me to this perceptive reading.
One of the themes of my book ‘Ah Ma!’ is this search for truth,original self or something more than ‘eating, sleeping and breeding.’ But I have avoided proposing any conclusions and have reported concepts and experiences as they emerge in the course of events.
While the neat conclusion that ‘the answer is, is the answer’ is convenient and calming, there is a need to go further beyond intellectual clarity to direct experience of the answer itself, and then even further into actualizing this contact.
In this way, God or ‘the answer’ or however you want to conceptualize it or not conceptualize it,can become an omnipresent living reality.
Conclusions can also limit the limitless.
Dear John,
Thanks for inspiring me. You do care about ‘me’ John, though I am ‘nothing’. My ideas, inspiration sometimes ’stuck’ in my heart………feel just like I have no exact words and phrase to express; to make others understand about the topic I write……
Thank you for your kindness, John. Love n Peace, Des
Hi john, i have listened and yes i get this.have got this before and its wonderful to have reminders of what happens when we simply ask,let go and accept..Thank you john.i shall keep this as a reminder. very valuable!
Love to one and all
Donna
Dear John,
What to say :”The answer is”. I have been listening, and than little bit thinking, and than listening again, Anddd I will go to listen again. How true is fact that when we are lost we do not see nothing, and than we awake and answer was all the time in front of as. Thank you John and to you Robert for sharing with us this story.
I heard long ago one interview with Catholich priest and he said:”when I come up, front of the door of heaven and God comes out. Look at as, all people who standing and waiting that doors of heaven open. Slowly going from one to another, and say: You I know, You I know… and stops… And who are you my son, You I dont know. What did you done? Why are you here?
I dont want to be that person, I want to be that whom he said: You I know…
our heaven and our hell are inside us… and
I would say The Answer is…
ksendl
Thank you John for making this interview with Butch available – it is priceless indeed, as is the great man himself. Wisdom and faith and acceptance of any answer that the problem contains within itself, are the inspirational flow that Butch brings to us – our Benevolent Buddha!
I hope that many may listen to his comfort in those fast changing times – and then, with your assistance, write inspiring books to take it out into the world.
With love,
Constance
dear John,
Thankyou so much for sharing the video’ ‘The Answer Is’ by Robert Butch James. I loved it and have got my answer to my problem. I got it at the right moment. Now I know what it means by ‘GOd gives the answer instantly or the answer is and was always there’. I am really moved. I would like to express my feelings to the world through my writing and tell the world what real living is and why we are here. I always had this feeling of why we are living this mechanical life doing the same things everyday without getting any real happiness. I had this feeling right from my childhood and whenever my ‘this feeling’ went high something terrible happened in the world around. A whole new change occured thereafter. It was like the universe telling me that ‘Yes you are here for something else’ not just to eat, sleep, watch tv and do the same work again and again’. I want to share my experiences regarding this by writing them and bring realization to as many as I can. I want to do my part.
Love you John for doing your part and helping so many around.
Maimoonah
Hey, John. Very enjoyable! Some of what he says reminds me of:
the method of the One Command : “I don’t know how” (subject) “I only know I do now…”
That story of the gods wondering where to hide the truth and they decided to put it in the heart
because no one looks there.
An old Christian poster that had a photo of a desert with a single track of footsteps with a soul
asking Christ “Why is there only one set of prints?” To which Christ answered
“Because that’s when I was carrying you.”
A True Writer, as any genuine Artist has no choice. You have to do it.
A True Writer is like someone who wants to be the perfect Fisherman. You talk to other Fishermen,
you read, observe, learn all you can, then get the best equipment available, mosey on down to the
Lake, cast out the line and then…WAIT. It is in the waiting that the words, like fish can be hooked.
Best Victor
hi John, thank you for this. i will have a listen and get back to you.
I have thought about why i want to write my book annd my answer is , to let others who may have experienced some things in life that hurt and may have been damaging , that that doesn’t have to mean that they are doomed to re-experiencing terrible tragedies and/or loss. That happiness,real happiness and peace are available to all , no matter what the story of the past has been . I want to give hope and inpire others to keep on keeping on . xx I love you John. Thank you.