Quotes On Universal And Diet Nonviolence

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First Do No Harm

 

HARM NO BEING


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patriciajj's picture

Thank you so much for taking

Thank you so much for taking the time to compile this amazing treasury of quotes from respected names and diverse spiritual traditions. I just may quote a few to my carnivore friends who still question my choice to be vegan. Very valuable! 

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thank you

Thank you Patricia...I'm glad you have alighted on the planet



 

 

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  You lift everyone's spirit,

 

You lift everyone's spirit, with your poems and reviews.



 

 

humanfruit's picture

this is like the sub-sub

this is like the sub-sub librarian portion of quotes to begin Moby Dick;

and, conveniantly enough, i find these vegan quotes to be just as entertaining

as to those found in one of my favorite novels. Thanks for your compassion.


bananas are the perfect food

for prostitutes

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 Dalton, thank you very

 

Dalton, thank you very much. Zach Bush, MD on youtube recounted people

brought back from death by heroic physician efforts were upset that they were forced to reenter their bodies... they were in a state of ecstatic peace.



 

 

J-C4113D's picture

I should like to add a couple

I should like to add a couple of other Biblical verrses for your consideration:  Genesis 9:3; John 4: 8, 32, 34; Acts 2:46 and 9:19; 1 Corinthians 8:10; Colossians 2:16.  


J-Called

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  Here is a beginning list of

 

Here is a beginning list of biblical quotes   Jesus was an Essene, a vegetarian group

https://www.postpoems.org/authors/saiom/poem/1090565



 

 

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And yet, as Saint Luke (whose

And yet, as Saint Luke (whose credibility I accept as absolute) tells us, in the last chapter of his Gospel, that on the evening of Pascha, after the resurrection, Jesus appeared to the disciples and asked for something to eat.  They gave Him a piece of fish and a honeycomb.  


J-Called

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  When Constantine, an animal

 

When Constantine, an animal eater, became emperor, he convened the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. Many vegetarian passages were removed from the Bible at that time,

and Jesus emerged in the new texts as very different from the vegetarian Essene he was.  The Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Thomas are 2 gospels which reflect Jesus' nonviolent diet.