"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."
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"All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality."
"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."
"We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience."
"The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love."
"We're God too but we don't realise it."
"The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute."
"People are all ignorant, they fear new things, they fear knowledge somehow, I don't know why. Everything that I ever learned was always so great. I never thought so at the time, it was just that little bit more in your mind an expansion of consciousness or awareness."
"I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time."
"It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order."
"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."
"No matter how much money you've got, it doesn't necessarily make you happy. You have to find your happiness with the problems you have, not worry too much about them, and chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare."
"The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me."
"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
"Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday."
"My son looks more like George Harrison than I do."
"Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass."
"Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business."
"The Beatles will go on and on."
"And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you."