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Love Is The Only Reality

May 1, 2013 Gentle World
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Love is the only reality It’s the feeling we naturally feel All the rest is derived from a world we’ve contrived that pretends there are some things more real Love is the only reality Human hearts feel at home intertwined Life’s illusions are borne behind masks that are worn The truth is, we’re all gentle [...]

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Aiming for Freedom

October 30, 2012 ethics
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~ from Out of the Jungle, by H. Jay Dinshah “Vegan aims are much more than just ‘animal welfare’, with a bit more feed for the slaves, cleaner cages for the vivisected, or another box of bandages to plaster over the terminal cancer that is animal slavery and exploitation. In short we are abolitionists, though non-violent ones, [...]

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A Foundation for Inner Security

May 23, 2012 ethics
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  “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us [...]

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I No Longer Steal from Nature

January 26, 2012 ethics
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written by Al-Ma’arri, blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer born AD 973, died AD 1058. … You are diseased in understanding and religion. Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth. Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up, And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals, [...]

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How could his eyes endure the slaughter?

October 20, 2010 ethics
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From the pen of Plutarch, Eminent Greek moral philosopher and biographer. A.D 46- 120. “Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and [...]

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The World’s Need

August 25, 2010 ethics
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written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American Poet So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. I am the voice of the voiceless: Through me, their hearts shall speak; Till the deaf world’s ear be made to [...]

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