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"if you're gonna go vegan, you have to do it right. quit animal by animal, that's how i did it. i quit all cow products at the same time -- beef and dairy. you can still have goat milk at this point. quit goat a few days later. you get the point. the marine life is fun, you can still have almost anything for months if you quit animal by ( Read more... ) -
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“In 1843 Levi Suydam, a twenty-three-year-old resident of Salisbury Connecticut, asked the town’s board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election. The request raised a flurry of objections from the opposition party, for a reason that must be rare in the annals of American democracy: it was said that Suydam was ( Read more... ) -
Buddha's light
I observe the Buddha’s treasury of light producing all oceans of lights: Whether sage or ordinary mortal, animate or inanimate being, none are not endowed with this body of light and openly demonstrating the function of this light. Root and branches are completely included, withdrawal and expansiveness are uninhibited, self-help and helping others ( Read more... ) -
Sutta-nipata
Do not form views in the world through either knowledge, virtuous conduct, or religious observances; likewise, avoid thinking of oneself as being either superior, inferior, or equal to others.
-from the Sutta-nipata
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Meeting
here's the meditation from this week's Friend's Meeting (if you want to, you can read the full article:
Each person is born with an unencumbered spot---free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry---an umbilical spot of grace where we were each first touched by God. It is this spot of grace that issues ( Read more... ) -
PETA
Why, I ask you, would PETA support things like gender essentialism? why do they lose sight of important things (like reducing suffering) and require absolute purity? do they know how absurd and unattainable it is? It's like be a fucking fundamentalist again.
for better philosophy and more light on the subject, check out
Vegan Outreach( ( Read more... ) -
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All languages that derive from Latin form the word ‘compassion’ by combining the prefix meaning ‘with; (com-) and the root meaning ‘suffering’ (Late Latin, passio). In other languages - Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish, for instance - this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means ‘feeling’ ( ( Read more... ) -
Dalai Lama
Motivation is very important, and thus my simple religion is love, respect for others, honesty: teachings that cover not only religion but also the fields of politics, economics, business, science, law, medicine-everywhere. With proper motivation these can help humanity…
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Dialogue
Dialogue, Adrienne Rich 1972
She sits with one hand poised against her head, the
other turning an old ring to the light
for hours our talk has beaten
like rain against the screens
a sense of August and heat-lightning
I get up, go to make tea, come back
we look at each other
then she says (and this is what I live through
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