George Harrison

Definitely, I think it\'s much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

Be healthy, don\'t eat meat, keep away from those Night-Clubs and MEDITATE.

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.

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

You don\'t need a passport and you don\'t need no visas, you don\'t need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

No truth could ever fear me.

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.

I don\'t want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

I\'ve got my mind set on you. But it\'s gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it\'s gonna take plenty of money.

I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God is this thing that we\'re never going to see, we\'re never going to meet, but you still have to believe in what we say. It\'s like this blind faith in something that they can\'t show you.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we\'ll beat them, and then we\'ll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn\'t work.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

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.

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

There\'s this morbid side to the way many represent Christianity today, where you don\'t smile, because it\'s too serious, and you can\'t expect to see God - that kind of stuff. If there is God, we must see Him, and I don\'t believe in the idea you find in most churches, where they say, \"No, you\'re not going to see Him. He\'s way up above you. Just believe what we tell you and shut up.\"

Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

Although Christ in my mind is an absolute yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. They\'re supposed to be representing Jesus, but they\'re not doing it very well. They\'re letting him down very badly, and that\'s a big turn off.

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.

If you open up your heart You will know what I mean We\'ve been polluted so long But here\'s a way for you to get clean By chanting the names of the Lord and you\'ll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.

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!

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.

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

It takes a certain amount of time and faith to accept or to realize that there is no difference between Him and His name, to get to the point where you\'re no longer mystified by where He is. You know, like, \"Is He around here?\" You realize after some time, \"Here He is - right here!\" It\'s a matter of practice.

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.

Love, come and get it, it\'s free.

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.