“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
“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The baby has become sentient. When we walk, she screams across the street at other babies, baby expletives, we think. Something along… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on… — Ana Paula Maia Copy Share Image
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you… — Dogen 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
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
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
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
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
“[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
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
“Nowadays, there are machines that can detect and record brain signals which are proof of consciousness of a living being. These signals… — Readtrepreneur Publishing Copy Share Image
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak 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
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 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
“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
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will… — Suresh Jindal 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
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
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
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