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How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.

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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
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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.
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Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.
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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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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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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.
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One's knowledge of karma should not be used to judge others. You should ask yourself: Do I like where I am going, or do I want to change my direction?
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What we do to others will come back to us.
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We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us.
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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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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.
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What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.
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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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To be political actually means to care about your community.
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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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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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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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To be alive is to be breathing.
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Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.
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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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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.
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