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Without going out of my door,
I can know all things of earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels, the less one knows
The less one really knows
Without going out of your door
You can know all things on earth
Without looking out of your window
You could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels, the less one knows
The less one really knows
Arrive without traveling, see all without looking
Do all without doing
I can know all things of earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels, the less one knows
The less one really knows
Without going out of your door
You can know all things on earth
Without looking out of your window
You could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels, the less one knows
The less one really knows
Arrive without traveling, see all without looking
Do all without doing
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It's also personally significant to me because I'm a bit of a shut-in, and when people find out they always start to immediately dismiss and discard anything I have to say or anything I think like, "What can you know about ANYthing? You barely even leave your house." It's like this song managed to put into words exactly what I've always felt about that, but could never manage to put into words, myself.
We are all part of the same source, so we are all equal.
Some people try to differentiate themselvs with opinions, manners and knowings but ultimatly nothing of that matters.
It's only love y'all. We are only love.
Check out Eckhart Tolle or Burt Harding on YouTube if you find the meaning of this song interesting.
george was so underrated and more of his songs should be given more credit. Don't bother me, i need you, i'm happy just to dance with you, for you blue and this song are the best ones either written or performed by george. i just wish he hadn't passed and made more great music... he'll be greatly missed by me, but his music still lives on!!
George was by far the best beatle!!!
very eastern like
the "thing that sounds like an organ" is a harmonium, the string is a hammered dulcimer called a santur, and the wailing sound is from a shehnai (oboe, think snake-charmer)
next, prepare yourselves, this is fascinating:
So apparently, George and John were doing a tv interview that focused on meditation and their experiences in India. A Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge saw it and was impressed by their sincerity and knowledge of Indian philosophy, and wrote George a letter. He suggested that George set lyrics to his (the scholar's) rendering of some verses of the Tao Te Ching (you know... the Chinese book of Taoism). These were the verses:
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Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth.
Without looking out of my window
I can know the ways of heaven.
For the farther one travels,
The less one knows.
The sage therefore
Arrives without travelling,
Sees all without looking,
Does all without doing.
-Lao Tzu
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...!
The lyrics pretty much say one thing: "The answer is inside." This is a motif in about a billion other Indian songs, and Harrison Anglofies it here with great skill.
The music is calm and celebratory all at once. I'm not sure of the instruments, I confess, but the thing that sounds like an organ provides continuity while the plucked instruments provide almost wild variation. Thusly, at the end ("Do all without doing, know all without knowing.), you can feel yourself being sort of swept up in a whirlpool of peace. Seems contradictory, eh? Too bad. It's Harrison.