All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands

beatlesneveroutofstyle:

“I was in bed at the time in England, and I don’t know the call came through sometime in the morning, 4 or 5 in the morning. I didn’t take the call, Olivia took the call and she said “John’s been shot” And I thought, Oh how bad is he? You know I just thought, maybe a flesh wound, or something like that. But they said No, that’s it, he’s dead, so I didn’t know I just went back to sleep actually, I just, maybe it’s a way of getting away from it. I just went to sleep. And then waited to see what it said the next morning, and he was still dead the next morning unfortunately. But, you know, I feel not so bad about it. In as much as, you know, when I went to  Rishikesh in India, I went into a mediation and had some good experiences. So I believe what it says, in the scriptures, when it says “There’s never a time when you didn’t exist, and there will never be a time when you cease to exist. The only thing that changes is our bodily condition, soul comes in the body and we go from birth to death. And it’s death how I look at it, it’s like taking your suit off. You know the soul is in these three bodies, and one body falls off. And I feel like that. I can feel him around here. You know we had a lot of experiences, I know John was, he knew who he was, that he was a soul that happened to be in this body for this period of time. It’s just the method by which you die, you know? I mean I think it’s nicer if you can consciously leave your body at death, as oppsoused to just some lunatic shooting you on the street or having a plane crash, something like that. I think it’s unfortunate the way he went out, but it doesn’t really matter, he’s okay and life flows on within you and without you.”

-George Harrison (1988)