The Reverence Nourishment and The Not-Harming Way of Living
I am starting to feel not entirely at ease with the word veganism. I do live in harmony with its essence, and I have NO SECOND GUESS. Still, labels often create separation rather than understanding. They can easily become an invitation to debate, to defend or to attack, instead of an opening to listen and feel. Words, when used as boundaries, can limit the depth of what they try to describe.
What I live is not a label, but a relationship with awareness and nonviolence. It is a way of being that I would like to call Reverence Nourishment, returning to our natural nourishment based on our inherent qualities of love and compassion. It is a return to what genuinely sustains your being, beyond distractions or false comfort. A nourishment based on awareness that naturally steps away from marketing messages spread by primitive habits and religious ceremony, and by food and drug marketing. A nourishment through reverence, which means being fed by awe, gratitude, sacred respect, and presence. It evokes, in my opinion, softness, devotion, and an honoring of life as sacred. It fits beautifully in a spiritual, yogic, or meditative context. It fits beautifully in our human heart.
It is a life practice rooted in the noble principle of Not Harming. Yogis call it ahimsa. It arises not from ideology, but from the heart’s natural wish to live gently, to participate in this world without causing unnecessary suffering. That’s it. You may like it or dislike it, but you know that it is a noble lifestyle that should not make you feel judged, but fast-forward your change to drop the unnecessary. Our natural state, the heart’s state is love, it is compassion and kindness. If you close your eyes, if you place your hands on your heart center, if you learn to feel and not to numb, if you allow yourself to step outside traditions and habits, you realize the wave of goodness that shapes our inner existence.
To eat and live in this way is to recognize that nourishment is not only physical; it is energetic and spiritual. Food carries vibration, and the vibration we take in becomes part of our own being. The yogic tradition speaks of sattva — the quality of clarity, harmony, and lightness that allows the mind to rest in balance and love to manifest. When we eat in a way that supports sattva, our inner landscape becomes more peaceful and spacious. We begin to sense life moving through us rather than something we consume. Seeing life in the animals and
This is why I think we should start speaking about a Reverence Nourishment — a sacred conscious relationship with food that reflects gratitude, awareness and the recognition human are not the best. We humans have no right to kill for taste, we humans have no right to slaughter animals, we humans have no right to rape animals for our food, we humans have no right to decide who needs to live or die for our taste. Each meal becomes an offering, a quiet act of reverence toward the Earth and all forms of life. It is not about exclusion, but INCLUSION — including the well-being of all beings in the choices I make.
The Harm We Inflict When We Are Not Aware of Our Choices
The violence we humans inflict upon animals is not confined to what we eat. In this reflection, I would like to briefly bringattention to a form of violence we rarely acknowledge—the one hidden behind fashion, shoes, and beauty products. I prefer not to use the word veganism, because labels tend to create walls instead of understanding. What I wish to speak about is awareness—about choosing not to participate in unnecessary harm. The fashion and beauty industries have normalized cruelty to an astonishing degree. Behind a “luxury” coat or a pair of “elegant” shoes lies an entire system of suffering. Animals are skinned, plucked, caged, and mutilated so that humans can wear their fur, leather, or feathers as decoration. The softness of a jacket or the shine of a handbag often comes from immense pain—pain that is conveniently hidden under marketing words like sustainable, ethically sourced, or responsibly made. The same blindness extends to cosmetics and beauty products.
Countless animals are still used for testing, forced to endure chemicals and toxins to ensure human comfort or appearance. Lipsticks, creams, perfumes, and hair dyes—objects of vanity—are often produced at the cost of lives that never had the chance to live freely. We like to believe that beauty and fashion express individuality, but in truth, they often reveal our collective disconnections. When we wear the skin or fur of another being, when we buy products tested on eyes that have never seen sunlight, we participate in a culture that glorifies dominance and disguises it as sophistication.
It is time to strip away this illusion.
True elegance does not depend on the suffering of others.
True beauty is not found in the mirror but in the absence of cruelty.
The way we dress and adorn ourselves can be an act of violence or it can be a quiet statement of reverence for life.
To adorn ourselves at the expense of another’s life reveals not sophistication but forgetfulness. For me, it is disgusting.
A truly graceful presence wears awareness, simplicity, and kindness as its finest attire. The choice, as always, rests with each of us.
A Way of Living in Harmony
To live according to this not-harming principle is not about purity or perfection. It is about presence. It is a daily inquiry: Can I live in a way that supports harmony rather than harm? Sometimes the answer unfolds easily; other times it asks for humility and adjustment. But in both, there is awareness — and that awareness is the essence of yoga, the essence of UNION. That awareness drives you to a place of peace and equanimity, to a space of love and tenderness, feeling and feeling deeper our inner goodness.
When I sit to eat, I try to feel the interconnectedness of all things: the warmth of the sun that ripened the fruit, the patience of the soil, the gift of rain, the hands that planted and harvested. Eating then becomes a meditation — a simple, sacred moment of gratitude for being sustained by the living Earth and joy nourished by having honoured life and the right of theother sentient beings, read “animals”, to be happy and free.
The plate, then, is a mirror of consciousness. When we eat with awareness, we remember our belonging. When we eat with love, we participate in healing. When we eat without harming, we are honouring life and not death.
I do not need to call myself anything. I simply choose to live in alignment with what feels true: a sattvic way of living guided by gentleness, respect, and deep appreciation for the web of life that supports us all.
In this way, the plate becomes a mirror — reflecting back the state of our consciousness. When we eat with awareness, we remember our belonging. When we eat with love, we participate in healing. When we eat without harming we are saying out loud I LOVE YOU.
Every meal can be a prayer, silent yet profound:
May my nourishment be an act of peace
May all beings be well
May my choices honour the life that flows through all
So, veganism—or better, a life lived in awareness, kindness and according the principle of not-harming — goes far beyond what is on our plate. It extends to the clothes we wear, the shoes we walk in, and the beauty products we use daily. Every choice holds the power to either perpetuate harm or nurture compassion. This is not about judgment, superiority, or perfection—it is about waking up to the simple truth that our comfort should never come at the cost of another’s suffering.
Awareness is not a restriction; it is a liberation. Kindness is not weakness; it is strength refined by consciousness. Gentleness is not passivity; it is the highest form of intelligence. My intention is not to condemn, but to invite—a soft invitation to look a little deeper, to question what we have been taught to accept, and to allow change to arise naturally, from a place of love. Because when our choices begin to align with our heart, life itself becomes lighter, clearer, and infinitely more beautiful.
Love you all.
Sasy
