Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.

What you eat affects you physically as well as other beings you share this planet with.

Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.

To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.

Create the kind of world you want to live in by how you treat others now.

We ourselves can never be free if we rob others of their freedom.

Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.