“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.”

We’re God too but we don’t realise it.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

The Lord is in everything that’s in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it’s really a reflection of God. You see it in other people – that’s him too, you know?

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

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.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It’s you who decides.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

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

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you’re either very lucky person or you’re not.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it’s great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcomed.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

Love one another (His last words).

She can shake away the recent frost of misery and pain. As life takes in a vivid sense of meaning once again.

I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Misery only ever lingers on those who choose not to see the beauty in anyone, other than themselves.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. It’s your choice