Feeling part of the Animal Rights Movement is just the beginning of the advantages a vegan lifestyle offers. It also helps us to develop the skills we need to communicate compassion, trust and a certain lightness of being which makes people less afraid of us. And if people aren’t afraid we’ll do a Jeckyl and Hyde on them - friendly one minute, hostile the next - non-violence is all they will see. As long as we can maintain that ‘working trust’ with people, we’re helping them get to (stage 3) where they are now open to suggestion, and willing to take this subject seriously. (See Blog 505, Persuasion, October 27th – stage 3 and 4)
The next stage (stage 4) is the first stage of being vegan, remembering how it was to be non vegan. It’s the start of knowing that it works for us and wanting others to try. And it’s perhaps the first time of realising how difficult it is to talk about this subject. It’s at this point we gather new arguments with which to change the world!
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