Q & A

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence

does not entitle one human to use another

for his or her own ends, how can it entitle

humans to exploit non-humans?

Peter Singer

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

Our grandchildren will ask us one day:

Where were you during the Holocaust

of the animals? What did you do against

those horrifying crimes? We won't be

able to offer the same excuse for

the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

If God condones what we do to animals,

then what does the Devil do?

Gary Yourofsky

Feminine Energy 🌺

Life is not a problem to be solved,

but a mystery to be lived.

Follow the path that is no path,

follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

We have a tendency to think in terms of doing

and not in terms of being... Our time is first

of all for us to be... To be alive, to be peaceful,

to be joyful, to be loving. And that is what

the world needs most.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You surrender to love;

you do not accomplish love by willpower.

Richard Rohr

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear

and our struggle for worthiness, but

it appears it's also the birthplace of joy,

of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Brené Brown

- Creativity.

- Radiance/inner joy (passion & purpose).

- Cleanliness (your appearance & environment).

- Warmth (being inviting & approachable).

- Body language (flowing, slow, graceful, soft) & posture.

- The desire to nurture (care for yourself, plants, animals & people).

- Appearance (skirts/dresses, heels, bright & soft colors that amplify your skintone, soft materials, hair accessories, jewelry, makeup, nailpolish, handbags, gloves).

- Smile (be a pleasure to be around).

- Vulnerability (heal yourself).

A Feminine Impression - Key Qualities of a Feminine Woman Part 1

1. Radiance (a childlike spirit, self-care).

2. Inner joy (smile, gratitude).

3. Creativity (beautify yourself & the world around you).

A Feminine Impression - Part 2

1. Cleanliness (routines & schedules).

2. Warmth (empathy & kindness, eye contact & presence, listening).

3. Movement.

A Feminine Impression - Part 3

1. Vulnerability

2. Submission

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Every day will allow you, will invite you to

add something to the pleasure of others,

or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

Humility is the foundation of all virtues,

for it allows us to approach every situation

with an open mind and a willingness

to learn from others.

Marcus Aurelius

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

A woman's health is her capital.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Outer work (nurture yourself)

- Spend time with yourself. Get 8 hours sleep per night. Have a self care-day every week. Pamper yourself or go to a professional.

- Make your home/personal space look feminine. Decorate with flowers & feminine colors. Light candles, play relaxing music. Seduce your senses.

- Always look your best. Smile. Plan trips. Do creative things.

- Read books that help you grow.

Inner work (journal)

- Reflect on your day/week. What did you do? How did you treat people? What happened and why did it happen? What do you need to change? What can you learn? How do you contribute to others? What can you do? How can you improve yourself? Focus on one thing at a time. Slowly incorporate new habits into your life.

- Visualize. Write down what you want to have/experience/achieve in the next 3 years of your life. Imagine yourself having and doing the things that you're working towards. Make a vision board. Pray about it. Believe.

- Evaluate people in your life. Are they adding value to your life? How do they influence you? Who do you want to be? What do you like/dislike? Decide what your priorities are. Set boundaries. You teach people how to treat you. Break free from people and habits that's hurting you.

- Focus on gratitude.

The habits, thought patterns, and perceptions

you display will be amplified in the years

to come. Don't practice what you don't

want to become.

J.Mike Fields

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo

1. Be still & present. Indulge your senses. Allow people to help you.

2. Connect with nature. Spend time outdoors. Have plants/flowers in your home.

3. Have fun. Laugh. Do something different. Take care of yourself. Love your body.

4. Embrace your emotions - but don't act out. Listen to your intuition.

5. Explore your creativity. Discover your talents. Find your purpose.

Inspiration exists, but it has

to find you working.

Pablo Picasso

The divine feminine is the energy of pure

creation; the embodiment of love,

compassion and nurturing.

Lisa Michaels

Harm no other beings.

They are just your brothers and sisters.

Buddha

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing

the magic of female animals

to create eggs and milk.

Nathalie Portman

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

The universe experiences itself through you

for a brief moment called life.

Eckhart Tolle

 A woman is the full circle.

Within her is the power to create,

nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild

The Life You Can Sa🧡e

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Be nice to the environment.

Be nice to animals.

Be nice to people.

If you do that, you will leave

a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

'Animal Liberation' became the indispensable

foundational text for the movement

whose name it bore.

J.M. Coetzee

Widely recognized as the foundational text

within the animal liberation movement,

Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened

my eyes to the radical philosophy that all

animals are worthy of equal consideration.

Joaquin Phoenix

Your legacy is every life you've ever touched.

Maya Angelou

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering

the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

The destiny of animals cannot be separated

from the destiny of man, and the destiny

of man cannot be separated from the destiny

of all of nature. I am exploring new narratives

that help build a bridge across the artifical

boundaries we have established between

ourselves and other species.

Gregory Colbert

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

My own view is that being vegan is not an end

in itself, but a means towards reducing both

human and animal suffering and leaving

a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

The world has enough for everyone's need,

but not enough for everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must change our diet. The planet

can't support billions of meat-eaters.

David Attenborough

Jo Frederiks

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

Many people have ideas on how others

should change; few people have ideas

on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

Never decide to do nothing just because you can

only do a little. Do what you can. You would

be surprised at what "little" acts have

done for the world.

Steve Maraboli

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall

A man is ethical only when he obeys

the compulsion to help all life which

he is able to assist, and shrinks from

injuring anyone who lives.

Albert Schweitzer

The difference between what we do and what we

are capable of doing would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cloe Wade

📷 Ethics & Art 🖌️

Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Today's Guernica

You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Bob Dylan

Aesthetics is the mother of ethics.

Joseph Brodsky

Indefensible

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.

Pierre Reverdy

Beautiful makes you come back for more.

It makes you ask questions. That's part

of it's power. It makes you think about

the experience it's giving you.

Diane Keaton

Nick Brandt

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

in forest, field and den,

the cry goes up to witness,

the soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

It is our hearts, not just our heads, that call

for an end to it all, that demand of us that we

overcome, for them, the habits and forces behind

their systematic oppression. That requires

both our passion and our discipline.

The fate of animals is in our hands.

God grant we are equal to the task.

Tom Regan

Reason is the slave of the passions.

David Hume

To have compassion means to have passion

for all things... for all human beings,

for the animals... everything the Earth contains.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We Are All 269

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

I think having land and not ruining it

is the most beautiful art that

anybody could ever want.

Andy Warhol

The opposite of love is not hate,

it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness,

it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy,

it's indifference.

The opposite of life is not death,

it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Jo Frederiks

I've Seen You in the Meat Aisle

~ by Emma Murphy

I've seen you in the meat aisle,

Seen you choosing who to eat,

Eyeing up their body parts

In rows all nice and neat.

I've seen you grabbing bottled milk

That wasn't made for you

And I know you never think about

The suffering they knew.

I've watched your fill your trolley up

With misery and pain,

Eggs and cheese, a leg, a wing,

My heart just broke again.

You say I should respect your choice,

That it's your right to choose,

Well, legally perhaps you win,

But morally, you lose.

I don't know how you do it

But you close your ears and eyes

To the slaughterhouse, the blood and screams,

Their fear, despair and cries.

It doesn't even cross your mind,

You bite and drink and chew,

And you keep yourself from knowing

That they died because of you.

So no, I don't respect your choice,

There's no respect from me.

You are putting in your stomach

Someone you refuse to see.

The animals, they have no voice,

Convenient for you,

But have a heart and look at those

Who lost their lives for you.

Someone, not something.

The Invisible Animals in Our Lives

Every bit of meat, chicken or fish you eat,

every bit of leather or fur you wear,

has come from an animal that has

been tortured, pulled away from their

family and brutally killed.

Lewis Hamilton

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

in forest, field and den,

the cry goes up to witness,

the soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say;

'my appetite is more important

than your suffering?'

Moby

Animals cannot speak but, but can you and  I

not speak for them and represent them?

Let us all feel their cry of agony and let us 

all help that cry to be heard in the world.

Rukmini Devi Arundale

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others,

it is not fitting for you to to be called a human.

Saadi

Why are vegans made fun of while

the inhumane factory farming process

regards animals and the natural world merely

as commodities to be exploited for profit?

Ellen Page

Think occasionally of the suffering

of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

As with any violent ideology, the populace must

be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,

lest they begin questioning the system or their

participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:

why else would the meat industry go to such

lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

Human beings are not machines,

and however powerful the pressure to conform,

they sometimes are so moved by what

they see as injustice that they dare

to declare their independence.

In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

The opposite of love is not hate,

it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness,

it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy,

it's indifference.

The opposite of life is not death,

it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Man is not what he thinks he is,

he is what he hides.

André Malraux

If people understood that for two minutes

of pleasure, there is a lifetime of suffering.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

But for the sake of some little moutful of flesh

we deprive a soul of the sun and light,

and of that proportion of life and time

she had been born into the world to enjoy.

Plutarch

Jo Frederiks

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo da Vinci

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

🌸 Personal Evolution 🍒

The place between your comfort zone and

your dream is where your life takes place.

Helen Keller

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubenstein

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own

thing and work hard. The right people - the ones

who really belong in your life - will come to you.

Will Smith

Learning is the beginning of wealth.

Searching and learning is where the miracle

process all begins. The great breakthrough

in your life comes when you realize

that you can learn anything you need to learn

to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.

These means there are no limits

on what you can be, have or do.

Albert Einstein

Once you stop learning you start dying.

Albert Einstein

A life spent making mistakes is not only

more honorable, but more useful

than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

We do not learn from experience...

we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

1. Boundaries.

2. Language.

3. Belief.

4. Stop gossiping.

5. Discipline.

6. Responsibility.

7. Spirituality.

8. Clothing style.

9. Stop giving unwanted advice.

10. Manage my daydreaming.

11. Kindness.

12. Gratitude.

13. Courage.

14. Generosity.

15. Cleanliness.

16. Apologize.

17. Drink water.

Education is not the learning of facts,

but training of the mind to think.

Albert Einstein

Try to learn something about everything

and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

As well the minds which are prevented from

changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The measure of intelligence

is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

1. Get a blow-dry.

2. Nurture your network.

3. Location, location, location...

4. Align yourself with what you want to attract.

5. Find a sport that you really enjoy.

6. Be open-minded.

7. Be passionate about something.

1. Change the narrative.

2. Embrace discomfort.

3. Don't compare yourself to others.

The only person with whom you have to

compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud

The only constant in life is change.

Heraclitus

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower

blessings on you.

Rajneesh

Loving yourself is part of loving God.

Take care of the temple that houses your soul.

A well maintained body allows

the soul to live it's purpose fully.

Mastin Kipp

Compassion is the signature

of higher consciousness.

Amit Ray

Direction is more important than speed.

Richard L. Evans

1. Set boundaries and speak up.

2. Become the person you like.

3. Shift your thought patterns.

4. Choose self-care as a lifestyle.

5. Rejection is redirection.

6. There is no such thing as "falling behind".

7. Invest in your everyday life.

 A woman is the full circle.

Within her is the power to create,

nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild