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I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.
Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.
The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.
When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.
The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave.
My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!
If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.
I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.
We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!
The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.
There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.
Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.
Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.
I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.
A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.
I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.
The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.
It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.
The word Hare is the word that calls upon the energy that's around the Lord. If you say the mantra enough, you build up an identification with God.
Krishna is dwelling in the hearts of everybody. It doesn't matter what kind of body you've got, the Lord's there with you. We're all the same really.
No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.
Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing to tell the people.
The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.
I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.
The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.
Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.
Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.
I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.
I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.
Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed
The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?
It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.
Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.
Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?
I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.
When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.
Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there.
Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.
I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'
I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.