Andrew Weil Quotes

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.