"Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!"
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"Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth."
"I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password."
"God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. 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."
"The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out."
"We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now."
"The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect."
"We were the Spice Boys."
"Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation."
"Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better."
"The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down."
"George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds."
"The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space."
"Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is."
"No truth could ever fear me."
"People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change."
"Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome."
"Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you."
"It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song."
"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."