Quote

It is true that veganism is a serious issue, but there should be fun involved. Why do anything if it doesn't bring some joy at the end of the day?

Sharon Gannon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
Musician
Teacher
Writer
Serious
Fun
Issues
Bring
Doesn
Veganism
True
Issue
Ends
Involved
Anything
Joy

More quotes by 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
Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.
Sharon Gannon
Image
To be alive is to be breathing.
Sharon Gannon
Image
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.
Sharon Gannon
Image
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.
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
Remember that everyone you see and every situation you find yourself in has come from inside of you you have created your reality by how you have treated others in your past.
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
Don't try to do this by yourself: to become a good yogi you need a teacher. Find a teacher you can bow to, who can teach you how to be kind - how to serve others - because the key to enlightenment lies in that. Be humble, work hard, study and practice. Chant the Name of God, do japa and meditate, every day.
Sharon Gannon
Image
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.
Sharon Gannon
Image
What you eat should not just be good for you but it should contribute to your happiness it should make you a happier person.
Sharon Gannon
Image
On average, most people consume between 100 - 120 grams of protein per day. Not only is that unhealthy, it's extremely dangerous, as the majority of the protein consumed is animal based.
Sharon Gannon
Image
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!
Sharon Gannon
Image
To find out how much protein you need, take your weight and divide it by three. Rest assured, a whole foods, varied plant-based diet will give you all the protein you need.
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
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
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.
Sharon Gannon