Thought for Thursday

Thought for Thursday

"Peace is a very good thing, and salmon is very good when it's smoked."
~Sean Lennon (Age 7)

Thought For Thursday

Interview, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1982

"Just certain things happened in my life which left me thinking 'What's it all about, Alfie?' and I remembered Jesus said somewhere 'Knock and the door shall be opened' and I said (knock, knock) 'Hellooo!' It's very difficult. From the Hindu point of view each soul is potentially divine, the goal is to manifest the divinity. The word yoga means union and the union is supposedly between the mind, the body, and the spirit, and yoga isn't lying on nails or standing on your head. I mean, there's various forms of yoga and they're all branches on one big tree. The Lord, or God, has got a million names, whatever you want to call him, it doesn't matter as long as you call him, Jesus is on the mainline, tell him what you want. Going back to self-realization, one guru said he found no separation between man and God, saving man's spiritual unadventurousness, and that's the catch, everybody's so unadventurous. We're all conditioned, our consciousness has been so polluted by the material energy it's hard to try and pull it all ways in order to really discover our true nature. Every one of us has within us a drop of that ocean and we have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere--it's right there within ourselves."

Thought for Thursday

This seemed like a good song for Thanksgiving, and the acoustic demo is gorgeous..

"if not for you, my sky would fall.."

Thought for Thursday

"Love one another."

These were George's last words. They may seem cliche, but the words we scoff at and label as idealistic hippie notions really are the words that speak the truth. It doesn't *have* to be a cliche. It doesn't *have* to be idealistic. If each person just decided that they would live their life as peacefully as possible, imagine what the world could be like. It's really quite incredible, the difference one person can make.

Thought for Thursday

Because today has just been one of those days when I desperately need quiet inside my head and beads between my fingers.

'Namah Parvati Pataye Hare Hare Mahadev
Namah Parvati Pataye Hare Hare
Namah Parvati Pataye Hare Hare

Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva
Hare Hare Hare Hare Mahadeva
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva

Namah Parvati Pataye Hare Hare
Namah Parvati Pataye Hare Hare
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva'

(from Brainwashed, a most beautiful ending of the song)

Thought for Thursday

George on chanting:

"Chanting doesn’t stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too."

Thought for Thursday

"George was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you." ~ Tom Petty

Thought for Thursday

"Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better." ~George Harrison

Thought for Thursday

"Be healthy, don't eat meat, keep away from those nightclubs and meditate." ~George Harrison

Thought for Thursday

George, on what he thinks happens when you die:

"Well, what do you think happens to people when they go home and they take their suit off? That’s what I think— your body falls off, but you’ve still got two other bodies, fortunately. This is how I see it; this thing they call the soul. In the Bible, I think Jesus said there are three cages for the Bird of Paradise. And the Bird of Paradise is this soul, this perfect thing that has its own identity, and then the three cages are these three bodies. One body is called the causal body, the next body is called the astral body and the third is called the gross physical body.

So death is only relative to birth— if you don’t wanna die, you don’t get born. But as long as you’re born, you’ve got to die, because just as sure as nighttime is gonna follow daytime, death is gonna follow birth. Like Bob Dylan said, "Look out kid, it’s something you did. God knows when, but you’re doing it again." So what happens is your body falls off. Gets tired or for whatever reason, and you’re now in your astral body, which is much more subtle and is made of light. Then, just like on your radio, where you can change the frequency without turning the dial, there’s a whole ’nother thing happening there. And that’s what it’s like: all these different levels are all right here, but they’re all vibrating on different frequencies. So death is just where your suit falls off and now you’re in your other suit. But you can’t see it on this level, so it’s all right. Don’t worry."

Thought for Thursday

"try to realize it's all within yourself,

no one else can make you change.

and to see you're really only very small

and life flows on within you

and without you."

~George Harrison