War & Peace Quote by George Harrison

Harrison frames peace not as something you chase, but something you uncover once the chasing stops. The first move is slyly countercultural: “beyond yourself” doesn’t mean self-improvement in the modern, productivity-drunk sense. It means stepping outside the ego’s tight little story - the constant auditioning of your identity, your grievances, your desires. Peace, in this setup, isn’t a prize for winning at life; it’s what’s “waiting” when the noise of selfhood quiets down.

The line’s power comes from its gentle sequencing. “When” makes it conditional, but not moralistic: no scolding, no thunderbolts, just a calm if-then that suggests a practice. “May find” keeps the promise soft, almost anti-salesman. For a pop musician who lived through Beatlemania’s tidal wave of attention, that restraint matters. He’s not offering certainty; he’s offering a direction. That’s the voice of someone who’s watched fame inflate the self and then hollow it out.

The subtext is Harrison’s long pivot from celebrity to spirituality - his immersion in Indian philosophy, meditation, and the idea that the self is both real (as experience) and misleading (as ultimate truth). Read against the late-60s and 70s Western hunger for “Eastern” wisdom, the quote also sidesteps trendiness. It’s less incense-and-sitar aesthetics, more practical diagnosis: your mind keeps suffering because it’s trapped in “you.”

“Peace of mind is waiting there” lands because it’s oddly tender. Not “achieved,” not “earned,” not “manufactured.” Waiting, like it never left - like the self was the only thing standing in the doorway.