You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

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.

Life goes on within you and without you

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.

If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.