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Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.

Sharon Gannon

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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
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It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.
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How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.
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One's knowledge of karma should not be used to judge others. You should ask yourself: Do I like where I am going, or do I want to change my direction?
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Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.
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Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final that animal will not reproduce again!
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Today aged foods like sauerkraut, miso, and tempeh are fermented in hygienically sanitized stainless-steel vats to assure cleanliness, so we can no longer be sure they will provide us with the B12 we need. Vegans should not mess around with this issue.
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To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.
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If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
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The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!
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Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and regular farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched feed meal fed to livestock.
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The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.
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Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.
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To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
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The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.
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When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
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Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.
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Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
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Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness you are not likely to feel deprived or 'less than.' People steal because they feel deprived. They try to make up for their deficits by depriving others.
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We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.
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Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.
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