Quotes on Sentient Beings

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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.

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.

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.

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

So long as space remains _x000D_ _x000D_ So long as sentient beings'_x000D_ _x000D_ Suffering remains _x000D_ _x000D_ I will remain_x000D_ _x000D_ In order to help,_x000D_ _x000D_ In order to serve.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.