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To be alive is to be breathing.

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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
Musician
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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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Fishing is not a benign activity it is hunting in the water.
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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 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.
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One of the definitions for mad is wild I'm certainly all for wild as opposed to domesticated.
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Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.
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Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.
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Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.
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Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.
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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
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The most important thing to remember in life is to be kind.
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Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.
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If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.
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Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless objects before you kill them? From a yogic point of view, one must weigh the karmic consequences of perceiving others as mere objects to be used and the consequences of profiting from the suffering of others.
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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.
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Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.
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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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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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Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.
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Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
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