Sharon Gannon Quotes
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.
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.
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.
Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.
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.
Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.
Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.
What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.
The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.
Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.
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.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.
What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others.
We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.
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.
Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.
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?
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.
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.
We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.
Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.
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.
Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.
How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.
Everyone is caught in the web of his or her own actions and is bound by past karmas (actions). Good and bad are relative terms. Every action takes one to the next place.
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.
If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.
Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?
I am a fast cook. I have to be, as I am a busy person with many responsibilities and don't have a lot of time for cooking.
You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.
Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness.
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.
What you eat should not just be "good for you" but it should contribute to your happiness; it should make you a happier person.
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.
If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.