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Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

Andrew Weil

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
Medical Writer
Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
Inhale
Breathing
Imagine
Universe
Time
Exhale

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