Stacy
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Graphic designer, record collector and psychic extraordinaire. Kidding about the psychic part. Or am I? #CLE
Graphic designer, record collector and psychic extraordinaire. Kidding about the psychic part. Or am I? #CLE
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“I’ll quote Maharishi, which is as good as quoting anybody else, and he says ‘For a forest to be green, each tree must be green,’ and so if people want revolutions, and you want to change the world and you want to make it better, it’s the same. They can only make it good if they themselves have made it — and if each individual makes it himself then automatically everything’s alright. There is no problem if each individual doesn’t have any problems. ‘Cause we create the problems — Christ said ‘Put your own house in order,’ and Elvis said ‘Clean-up your own backyard,’ so that’s the thing. If everybody just fixes themselves up first, instead of everybody going around trying to fix everybody else up like the Lone Ranger, then there isn’t any problem. The problems are created more, sometimes, by people going around trying to fix up the government, or trying to do something. [...] [E]verything is bound by the laws of nature, which are relativity. What goes up must come down. It’s the whole yin-yang thing, left-right, up-down, black-white, wrong-right — all these things are just equal and opposite. It’s like you can’t have the north pole if you don’t have the south pole. You only measure goodness by badness, so in actual fact you can only have good if you have bad. So bad and good are equal and opposite — it’s the law of duality, so really it’s silly to say that’s bad — let’s make it good, because then you know good becomes bad as well. The whole thing is to try and appreciate that it’s changing all the time — that the physical universe is good and bad — and that, surely, is one of the reasons why people turn to religion or philosophy or something — to try and find some underlying Absolute to all this relativity.” - George Harrison, International Times (September 11, 1969)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hwvlozdzepfmosiy5mbsc6pe/bafkreidzjhvjt3x4zy3rkibg6rcpmuyrq7wzsdzqxujpdb263lmyjk5loi)
