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==The time that John, Paul, George and Ringo spent at the Ashram in India, in 1968, was the most creative time of their life. They were inspired to write 48 songs in the few weeks they were there. The reason they went to India was to find inner peace. George seem the most interested in the trip; maybe because he was the quietest one and perhaps most in touch with himself. Each one in there own was looking to get away from their fame, from the cacophony of their busy lives.==

=="Personally, I woke up one morning in Montreal in late 1967 and realized there were parts of myself I didn't like. I was shocked. I had thought all was going well: I was working in film, been a television host at 21, was proud of myself for doing voter registration work in Mississippi in the dangerous summer of '65. And yet, in that moment, I felt empty inside. As I thought about it, I realized I lacked self-confidence. I lacked a sense of inner peace, even a sense of meaning for my life. In December of that year, I stuffed my backpack and set out on a journey to 'find myself'. I only thought of India. It was instinct, the inner voice. I knew nothing of India or meditation, and I had no idea the Beatles would be there.==

==I said good-bye to my girlfriend, both of us in tears, and arranged to end my time working at the National Film Board of Canada with one last job, as a sound recordist on a documentary shoot in India. On December 4, 1967, with two hundred dollars and a round-trip ticket to India in my pocket, I boarded a plane for my first trip overseas." - George==