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"The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile."
"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."
"The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave."
"I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls."
"I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ."
"We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine."
"There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is."
"The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it."
"Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and chanted all the way. It gets you feeling a bit invincible. The funny thing was that I didn't even know where I was going. I mean I had bought a map, and I knew basically which way I was aiming, but I couldn't speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese. But none of that seemed to matter. You know, once you get chanting, then things start to happen transcendentally."
"Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business."
"What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach."
"Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more."
"We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied."
"In one way, we're on an upward swing, but at the same time there's still a lot of evil that goes on in the world. I think it's definitely heading in a better direction, but it seems to take so long for all the people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We've got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that."
"There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care."
"Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know."
"Life goes on within you and without you"
"I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion."
"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."
"Ultimately the love can become so big that we can love the whole of creation instead of 'I love this but I don't like that.'"