Henry David Thoreau Quotes

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Things taste less salty when they're cool.

Use all of your senses.

Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.

Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

We live on the leash of our senses.

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

Yoga puts me in a place that is a little bit less about doing and more about being, which enables me, in fact, to do more.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I started practicing yoga when I was a teenager, studying classical dance. My body and mind were very open but not very strong. I was trusting, excited, passionate, and receptive. All good qualities when balanced with the proper amount of strength and awareness.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

In yoga, it really is about being grounded.

First and foremost, food needs to be delicious. It should pop and explode with flavor. Food should please all the senses.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

I believe mustard to be one of the most amazing condiments.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.