Andrew Weil Quotes

It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet.

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.