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"The Lord loves the one that loves the Lord And the law says if you don't give, then you don't get loving Now the Lord helps those that help themselves And the law says whatever you do It comes right back on you"
"To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it."
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now."
"Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness."
"Chanting Hare Krishna can make a person a better Christian."
"The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless."
"Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy painting, but music and sound seem to travel along vibrations, you know the whole thing with mantras is to repeat and repeat those sounds... it's vibrations in everything like prayers and hymns."
"There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute because for me it was a sitar or a guitar or even Elvis Presley doing "Heartbreak Hotel." It was like Krishna's flute calling me somewhere. It's just really simple when we can remember."
"I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death."
"Create and preserve the image of your choice."
"Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are."
"Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you."
"All things must pass."
"It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world."
"Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant."
"Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not."
"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."
"We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations."
"There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again."
"I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you."