Quote

Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.

Sharon Gannon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
Musician
Teacher
Writer
Ultimately
Others

More quotes by Sharon Gannon

Image
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.
Sharon Gannon
Image
To cultivate compassion, try to remember that others are doing the best they can, just like you, and that when someone does something abusive, they are getting something that they feel is positive from the experience.
Sharon Gannon
Image
It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.
Sharon Gannon
Image
To be political actually means to care about your community.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Fishing is not a benign activity it is hunting in the water.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat it isn't a physiological necessity.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.
Sharon Gannon
Image
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.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink the milk of another species (enslaved cows and goats), and we have come to consider it normal when, it is actually a pretty perverse form of sexual abuse!
Sharon Gannon
Image
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.
Sharon Gannon
Image
How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.
Sharon Gannon
Image
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
Sharon Gannon
Image
If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
Sharon Gannon
Image
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.
Sharon Gannon
Image
We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.
Sharon Gannon
Image
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
Sharon Gannon