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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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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
Musician
Teacher
Writer
Life
Environmentalist
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Planets
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See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.
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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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Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
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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.
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I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.
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Everything we do should contribute to happiness.
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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
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Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.
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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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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.
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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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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.
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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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Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.
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If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.
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By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.
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In fact, studies show that vegans tend to get more iron than meat eaters. Vitamin C from fruits and vegetables increases iron absorption. Meanwhile, dairy products reduce iron absorption significantly.
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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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Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.
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