Quotes by Vegetarianism Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress. Rajneesh loving-you light vegetarianism Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology. Rajneesh vegetarianism mean ideas Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult. Rajneesh vegetarianism prayer men The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. Rajneesh reverence-for-life vegetarianism ideas I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years. Rajneesh vegetarianism people years It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual. Rajneesh differences vegetarianism spiritual With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals. Rajneesh discipline vegetarianism animal If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. Richard Wagner vegetarianism compassion animal Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over? River Phoenix vegetarianism ignorance race When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. River Phoenix bully vegetarianism kids Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. River Phoenix vegetarianism links perfection To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. Romain Rolland vegetarianism animal men Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox. Russell Brand recovery sexy vegetarianism My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk. Rynn Berry glasses vegetarianism essence The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts. Saint Basil meat light vegetarianism You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them. Sathya Sai Baba meat-eating vegetarianism animal I think there's something odd about eating another living anything. Shania Twain funny-inspirational vegetarianism thinking Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed. Seneca the Younger bloodshed refrain vegetarianism Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother? Steven Morrissey grandmother vegetarianism animal In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. T. Colin Campbell vegetarian-health vegan vegetarianism «12345678910»