“Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!” PeopleThinkingPhilosophyImagineTeachingEatingStatementsDietsBrownCakeSugarSaltImagine ThatRiceCarrots Author:George Ohsawa
“Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.” PhilosophySexBreakEatingDrinkingStriveAlcoholMeatHungDrinking AlcoholHaving SexTantraEating Meat Author:Frederick Lenz
“You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.” PeopleNeedsMeanPhilosophyRunningBreakEatingKillingMeatTantraEating Meat Author:Frederick Lenz
“In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.” PhilosophyMeditationEatingHamburgersTantraSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.” PhilosophyEatingDinnerComforter Author:Mason Cooley
“First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.” IfsNeedsTryingFirstsMayDifferentPhilosophyBodyAbleFightingRealizingColdEatingEmbraceYour BodyDietsShockVeganEducateCravingTurkeysBeneficialDrasticVegan DietTake Your TimeChanges Over TimeCold Turkey Author:Gary Player
“They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, so if you can get to a man's spirit soul by eating, and it works, why not do it? There's nothing better than having been chanting and dancing, or just sitting and talking philosophy, and then suddenly the devotees bring out the prasadam. It's a blessing from Krishna, and it's spiritually important.” IfsMenWayHeartImportantSoulPhilosophySpiritTalkingBlessingEatingSittingDancingWhy NotStomachKrishnaChantingDevotee Author:George Harrison
“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.” LifeKindTwoMatterHardPhilosophySeemsDeathPositionFoodBecomingEatingRaisesMeatVegetarianControversyShiftingSymbolismMeat EatingGestaltRaises Questions Book:Animals and why They Matter Source: Animals and why They Matter
“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.” ThinkingShouldTryingYearsFirstsKindMadeEndsReasonPhilosophyFeltForgetImagineShapesEatingMajorsIntellectualMeatVegetarianAnnoyingConformMoldPretentiousThoughts On LifeParadoxicalSophomoreIntellectual LifeMeat EatingSophomore Year Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago” ThinkingWayShouldLittlesArtPhilosophySeemsStrangeEatingDoctorsPhilosophicalSpecialtySeasoningDoctor Zhivago Author:Boris Pasternak