In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.


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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in...
ANDRE WEIL
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
ANDRE WEIL
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate...
ANDRE WEIL
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works f...
ANDREW WEIL
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by p...
ANDREW WEIL
You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
ANDREW WEIL
Is your energy good and mind clear? Everybody is different, so I don't really think there are genera...
ANDREW WEIL
The longer you've been exposed to pro-inflammatory pressures, the more damage can accumulate.
ANDREW WEIL
I have always recommended natural beauty products. I'm concerned about the artificial ingredients in...
ANDREW WEIL
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being
ANDREW WEIL
The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mech...
ANDREW WEIL
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
ANDREW WEIL
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n...
CYNTHIA WEIL
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weig...
ANDREW WEIL
Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me pick...
ANDREW WEIL
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shorteni...
ANDREW WEIL
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-manag...
ANDREW WEIL
If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need t...
ANDREW WEIL
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break...
CYNTHIA WEIL
Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue ...
ANDREW WEIL
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in man...
ANDREW WEIL
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. ...
ANDREW WEIL
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known a...
ANDREW WEIL
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
CYNTHIA WEIL