The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
“Whether we are ready or not, the age of intelligent coexistence is no longer coming. It is already here.” — James S. Coates Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Dogs are not our playthings. They are sentient beings with their own opinions and feelings. We expect them to fit into our… — Beverley Courtney Copy Share Image
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When there is hallucination, there is the truth, by recognising it as hallucination. Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss,… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
“She knelt on the walkway, and the plants bunched around her, each of them calling out their name: the philodendron was Dendy… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards: First, the notion that nonhuman animals do… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“I adore the way nature reflects all of the sentient beings in our world.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice:… — James S. Coates Copy Share Image
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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