Top 90 Sharon Gannon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “To cultivate compassion, try to remember that others are doing the best they can, just like you, and that when someone does something abusive, they are getting something that they feel is positive from the experience.”

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52. “Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.”

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53. “No one can “do yoga.” Yoga means union with God. Yoga means eternal happiness, bliss, joy, and unconditional love. Yoga is who you are. It is your natural state. What we can do are practices that, by revealing to us our resistance to existing in our natural state, may lead us to it. But.”

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54. “The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.”

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55. “It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don’t know, and it is not our place to judge.”

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56. “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.”

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57. “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.”

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58. “The present moment is where eternity exists.”

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59. “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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60. “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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61. “If we weren’t so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now – and with good reason, as we can’t be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.”

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62. “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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63. “As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, “If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?””

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64. “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.”

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65. “When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.”

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66. “Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.”

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67. “The ridicule you may endure from others when you speak up for animals can help you to hone your skills, enabling you to become better at articulating your message in an informed, compassionate, and communicative way.”

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68. “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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69. “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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70. “Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.”

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71. “All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.”

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72. “If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.”

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73. “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?”

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74. “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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75. “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.”

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76. “All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.”

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77. “In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.”

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78. “Everything we do should contribute to happiness.”

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79. “Each of us, through the actions we take, plant the seeds which will eventually but inevitably grow and create the reality we will find ourselves living in.”

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80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one’s small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.”

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84. “Compassion is the key to a successful relationship because by means of compassion we can access the innermost needs of the other. When we are aware of those needs, we can begin to communicate and not just profess what we think we know and demand that others change because we want them to.”

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85. “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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86. “Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.”

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87. “Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.”

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88. “Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.”

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89. “Our goal as yoga practitioners is to free ourselves from selfishness and strengthen our connection to this Self. Yoga is the joining of the separate self with the universal Self; it is a process of synthesis.”

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90. “By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.”

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91. “Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.”

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92. “There are many activities that human beings have been doing “forever.” We might argue from that perspective that eating meat should be allowed to continue. Men have been raping women for thousands of years; does that mean that it is normal and should be allowed to continue?”

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93. “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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94. “We ourselves can never be free if we rob others of their freedom.”

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95. “To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish what was done to wild cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks thousands of years ago: we are confining them in holding pens.”

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96. “To be alive is to be breathing.”

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97. “Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.”

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