Sentient Beings Quotes - Page 4

• There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Together, Littles

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• Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

  Oliver Sacks

  Beautiful, Adventure, Animal

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Veganism is about nonviolence:
  nonviolence to other sentient beings;
  nonviolence to yourself;
  nonviolence to the earth.

  Gary L. Francione

  Earth, Nonviolence, Veganism

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• One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.

  Kingsley Martin

  Animal, Thinking, Numbers

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• Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Joy, Feelings

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  Daniel Dennett

  Children, Islands, Empathy

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind". Interview with Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Suffering And Death, Fur

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• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Suffering

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• Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

  Dogen

  Compassion, Evil, Worry

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• Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Hands, Path

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• The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Important, Lines, Common

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.24, Sentient Publications

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• I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Years, Stills

  "Whedon Creates Space Cowboys in 'Firefly'". Post-Gazette.com, July 22, 2002.

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• Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Unity, Virtue

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• Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.

  Amish Tripathi

  Animal, Law, Civilization

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• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pride, Intelligent, Peaceful

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

  Gary L. Francione

  Compassion, Should Have, Treated

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• If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

  Gary L. Francione

  Matter, Violence, Vegan

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• We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Important, Use

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• It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

  Voltaire

  Soul, Comfort, Candide

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• When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

  Pema Chodron

  Freedom, Doors, Inspire

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.183, Shambhala Publications

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• The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Ocean, Teaching, Talking

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Erik Pema Kunsang, Marcia Binder Schmidt (1994). “As It Is”, p.82, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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• To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Compassion, Years, Mind

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• The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Lying, Yoga

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.110, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Chariots, Collections

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• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sight, Blood

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