I just finished watching the Martin Scorsese documentary, George Harrison Living in the Material World. I have just wiped away the tears and for now I think it is just best to feel it and not explain much. I saw so much significant, profound, and moving stuff in this man and this great HBO special. It is now more obvious than before that the "quiet" Beatle was the most profound and deep of the Fab Four. The last words in the program were from his wife, who said that you would not have needed a light to film him leaving his body because the room was that bright. Harrison spoke about how important it was to leave his body at the right time and in the right way. He was sad that John Lennon didn't have that opportunity (even though he did leave it). George was prepared and ready! His life was truly a spiritual journey!
That's interesting, Steve. I read a biography of George Harrison created shortly after his death, and it was very even-handed about his positive and negative traits: George, it seems, was everything you've said, but also occasionally petulant, difficult, and in his first few years of spiritual journey, strident. He was a complex man, to be sure.
ReplyDeleteI've been looking at this book in the store since it came out. I love this guy even though he was so wonderfully human, loving, crazy and sometimes wild. Good post.
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