George Harrison Quotes

All love is really God's love.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

Chanting Hare Krishna can make a person a better Christian.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

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

Why should God be limited? Even if you get Him as Krishna, He is not limited to that picture of Krishna. He can be the baby form, He can be Govinda and manifest in so many other well-known forms. You can see Krishna as a little boy, which is how I like to see Krishna. It's a joyful relationship.

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.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

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.

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing to tell the people.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

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.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

Krishna consciousness was especially good for me because I didn't get the feeling that I'd have to shave my head, move into a temple, and do it full time. So it was a spiritual thing that just fit in with my life-style. I could still be a musician, but I just changed my consciousness, that's all.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity

We'll keep on being re-born because for the law of action and reaction: "What-so-ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap;" you reap when you come back in your next birth, what you've sown in your previous incarnation, that's why I'm me and you're you and he's him and we are all whoever we are.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

Wherever I go in the world, when I see devotees, I always say "Hare Krishna!" to them, and they're always pleased to see me. It's a nice relationship. Whether they really know me personally or not, they feel they know me. And they do, really.

It's all in the mind.

We were the Spice Boys.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

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.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting.

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.

I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

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.

Create and preserve the image of your choice.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

We're as much influenced by everybody else as they are by us, if they are. It's just all a part of the big thing.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.

If there is a God, I want to see him. I don't want to just hear some holy roller shouting about him.

People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open.

I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.

The Beatles will go on and on.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.