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I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

Sharon Gannon

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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
Musician
Teacher
Writer
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Judgmental
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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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To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.
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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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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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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.
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Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.
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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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If you want to know if someone is a spiritual being ask yourself, Is he or she breathing? If the answer is yes, then you know that you are in the presence of a spiritual being.
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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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Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.
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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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Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a long time and become an unquestioned habit, does that mean it should be allowed to continue.
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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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What you eat should not just be good for you but it should contribute to your happiness it should make you a happier person.
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By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.
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Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.
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Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone.
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In fact, drinking milk and eating dairy products can rob your body of calcium and contribute to osteoporosis. If you eat dark green leafy vegetables like kale, collards, and mustard greens, you can get enough calcium from a vegan diet.
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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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Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.
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