"To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed."

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Source : Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

Philip Kapleau

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“Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.”
“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

Source : "Essay on Poetry" by John Sheffield,
“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”
“Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.”
“Your worst parts of your life, the things that you're ashamed of will become your strongest assets in a very quick amount of time. And the implication in that is your story is all that you have so passing it on to someone else who is struggling behind you coming up the ladder helps them. And so in the spirit of service in recovery we often talk about the power of our own stories to connect with other people and show them that they too can get well. I have found that not only is that true in the recovery world, but it is true in the social world in the social milieu in which I exist.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.”
“Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.”
“The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.”

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