“Experience is the main reason why we’re here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.”

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street; if you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature.

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life.

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

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don’t want to die, you don’t get born!

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

With our love, we could save the world.

It’s all in the mind.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Heaven and hell is right now. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

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

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

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

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven.