Vic Asouzu
@vicasouzu.bsky.social
Each day I ask: what does it mean to be free, and to succeed, without breaking our bond with life or our reverence for it?
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Vic Asouzu
@vicasouzu.bsky.social
· Dec 18
The world doesn’t need more indifference. It needs changemakers.🌱 Those brave enough to live their values and act with compassion.
If you’ve felt you don’t belong, maybe it’s because you’re here to help create a world where you do. Authenticity isn’t easy, but it’s where change begins.
Let’s rise.
If you’ve felt you don’t belong, maybe it’s because you’re here to help create a world where you do. Authenticity isn’t easy, but it’s where change begins.
Let’s rise.
Life is life, whether human or not, and suffering is suffering.
Every being just wants what you want: the chance to live and feel well.
Living ethically isn’t about rules.
It’s about remembering what being human asks of us toward all life.
Every being just wants what you want: the chance to live and feel well.
Living ethically isn’t about rules.
It’s about remembering what being human asks of us toward all life.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Life is life, whether human or not, and suffering is suffering.
Every being just wants what you want: the chance to live and feel well.
Living ethically isn’t about rules.
It’s about remembering what being human asks of us toward all life.
Every being just wants what you want: the chance to live and feel well.
Living ethically isn’t about rules.
It’s about remembering what being human asks of us toward all life.
When you see life as sacred, you stop having to argue with yourself about what’s right.
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
When you see life as sacred, you stop having to argue with yourself about what’s right.
Every so often, the Earth brings forth a human who stands out.
Calm, steady, awake in a way the rest of us cannot ignore.
Calm, steady, awake in a way the rest of us cannot ignore.
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Every so often, the Earth brings forth a human who stands out.
Calm, steady, awake in a way the rest of us cannot ignore.
Calm, steady, awake in a way the rest of us cannot ignore.
Reverence for life isn’t a belief, it’s a way of seeing.
It awakens the moment you remember your bond with life.
Your breath depends on trees, your food on the soil, your peace on the honesty of your heart.
It awakens the moment you remember your bond with life.
Your breath depends on trees, your food on the soil, your peace on the honesty of your heart.
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Reverence for life isn’t a belief, it’s a way of seeing.
It awakens the moment you remember your bond with life.
Your breath depends on trees, your food on the soil, your peace on the honesty of your heart.
It awakens the moment you remember your bond with life.
Your breath depends on trees, your food on the soil, your peace on the honesty of your heart.
The illusion of separation is what makes the world sick.
The cure is simple: look at anything alive long enough, and you’ll see yourself staring back.
The cure is simple: look at anything alive long enough, and you’ll see yourself staring back.
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The illusion of separation is what makes the world sick.
The cure is simple: look at anything alive long enough, and you’ll see yourself staring back.
The cure is simple: look at anything alive long enough, and you’ll see yourself staring back.
Every being, human, animal, or plant, carries the same life that breathes through you.
Remember that, and kindness comes naturally.
Remember that, and kindness comes naturally.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Every being, human, animal, or plant, carries the same life that breathes through you.
Remember that, and kindness comes naturally.
Remember that, and kindness comes naturally.
What do a thriving coral reef, a balanced body, and a compassionate act have in common?
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What do a thriving coral reef, a balanced body, and a compassionate act have in common?
Compassion is our most advanced technology.
It heals faster, costs nothing,
and runs on empathy, not exploitation.
It heals faster, costs nothing,
and runs on empathy, not exploitation.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Compassion is our most advanced technology.
It heals faster, costs nothing,
and runs on empathy, not exploitation.
It heals faster, costs nothing,
and runs on empathy, not exploitation.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how imagination might be the most godlike thing in us.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how imagination might be the most godlike thing in us.
Some call compassion a personal preference.
It isn’t.
It’s what awareness sounds like when it grows beyond self-interest.
It isn’t.
It’s what awareness sounds like when it grows beyond self-interest.
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Some call compassion a personal preference.
It isn’t.
It’s what awareness sounds like when it grows beyond self-interest.
It isn’t.
It’s what awareness sounds like when it grows beyond self-interest.
The argument that “nature is cruel” and “animals kill too”
is like saying kids fight, so adults should never grow up.
Human awareness gives us the ability to look beyond instinct.
That’s where morality begins, when we can see suffering and choose not to cause it.
is like saying kids fight, so adults should never grow up.
Human awareness gives us the ability to look beyond instinct.
That’s where morality begins, when we can see suffering and choose not to cause it.
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The argument that “nature is cruel” and “animals kill too”
is like saying kids fight, so adults should never grow up.
Human awareness gives us the ability to look beyond instinct.
That’s where morality begins, when we can see suffering and choose not to cause it.
is like saying kids fight, so adults should never grow up.
Human awareness gives us the ability to look beyond instinct.
That’s where morality begins, when we can see suffering and choose not to cause it.
Once you understand what justice really means, veganism stops being a debate.
It becomes the only way of living that makes sense.
It becomes the only way of living that makes sense.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Once you understand what justice really means, veganism stops being a debate.
It becomes the only way of living that makes sense.
It becomes the only way of living that makes sense.
It’s not about food. It’s about fairness. Once that lands, everything shifts. After that, it’s no longer “why vegan?” it’s “why harm?”
Veganism is a fundamental principle of justice, not a diet.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It’s not about food. It’s about fairness. Once that lands, everything shifts. After that, it’s no longer “why vegan?” it’s “why harm?”
Some say veganism isn’t natural.
Maybe they’re right, but neither is wearing clothes or building cities.
Maybe they’re right, but neither is wearing clothes or building cities.
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Some say veganism isn’t natural.
Maybe they’re right, but neither is wearing clothes or building cities.
Maybe they’re right, but neither is wearing clothes or building cities.
The universe isn’t sentimental.
It doesn’t care who’s right or wrong.
It simply reflects the balance we create.
Cruelty breaks it.
Compassion restores it.
That’s the quiet physics of life.
It doesn’t care who’s right or wrong.
It simply reflects the balance we create.
Cruelty breaks it.
Compassion restores it.
That’s the quiet physics of life.
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The universe isn’t sentimental.
It doesn’t care who’s right or wrong.
It simply reflects the balance we create.
Cruelty breaks it.
Compassion restores it.
That’s the quiet physics of life.
It doesn’t care who’s right or wrong.
It simply reflects the balance we create.
Cruelty breaks it.
Compassion restores it.
That’s the quiet physics of life.
If cruelty built this world, what might love build instead?
🧵 A glimpse of what comes after cruelty.
🧵 A glimpse of what comes after cruelty.
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
If cruelty built this world, what might love build instead?
🧵 A glimpse of what comes after cruelty.
🧵 A glimpse of what comes after cruelty.
The line between cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans
has never really existed.
Veganism is how we remember that compassion was never meant to be divided.
has never really existed.
Veganism is how we remember that compassion was never meant to be divided.
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The line between cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans
has never really existed.
Veganism is how we remember that compassion was never meant to be divided.
has never really existed.
Veganism is how we remember that compassion was never meant to be divided.
What we call ethics, life simply calls intelligence.
No species thrives through cruelty for long.
Kindness isn’t moral invention, it’s how life keeps itself alive.
Maybe the next step in our evolution is remembering our place in that circle and living by it.
No species thrives through cruelty for long.
Kindness isn’t moral invention, it’s how life keeps itself alive.
Maybe the next step in our evolution is remembering our place in that circle and living by it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
What we call ethics, life simply calls intelligence.
No species thrives through cruelty for long.
Kindness isn’t moral invention, it’s how life keeps itself alive.
Maybe the next step in our evolution is remembering our place in that circle and living by it.
No species thrives through cruelty for long.
Kindness isn’t moral invention, it’s how life keeps itself alive.
Maybe the next step in our evolution is remembering our place in that circle and living by it.
Reverence isn’t religion.
It’s remembering that every hurt we inflict on life echoes somewhere inside us.
Because there is no “other.
It’s remembering that every hurt we inflict on life echoes somewhere inside us.
Because there is no “other.
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reverence isn’t religion.
It’s remembering that every hurt we inflict on life echoes somewhere inside us.
Because there is no “other.
It’s remembering that every hurt we inflict on life echoes somewhere inside us.
Because there is no “other.
The more I learn to live in harmony with life, the more I see it isn’t a sacrifice at all. It’s a homecoming.
And the deeper I live it, the clearer it feels. Everything in nature already knows how to flow, rest, and renew. We just have to remember our place in that rhythm.
And the deeper I live it, the clearer it feels. Everything in nature already knows how to flow, rest, and renew. We just have to remember our place in that rhythm.
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The more I learn to live in harmony with life, the more I see it isn’t a sacrifice at all. It’s a homecoming.
And the deeper I live it, the clearer it feels. Everything in nature already knows how to flow, rest, and renew. We just have to remember our place in that rhythm.
And the deeper I live it, the clearer it feels. Everything in nature already knows how to flow, rest, and renew. We just have to remember our place in that rhythm.
History shows what happens when power without empathy gets unleashed anywhere.
That’s how colonization, exploitation, and dehumanization justify themselves.
Empathy isn’t weakness. It’s what keeps strength from turning cruel.
That’s how colonization, exploitation, and dehumanization justify themselves.
Empathy isn’t weakness. It’s what keeps strength from turning cruel.
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
History shows what happens when power without empathy gets unleashed anywhere.
That’s how colonization, exploitation, and dehumanization justify themselves.
Empathy isn’t weakness. It’s what keeps strength from turning cruel.
That’s how colonization, exploitation, and dehumanization justify themselves.
Empathy isn’t weakness. It’s what keeps strength from turning cruel.
People say plants don’t have enough protein.
I say they carry life-force that hasn’t been twisted through harm.
They grow in reciprocity, taking and giving in balance, nourishing without cruelty.
I’d rather build my strength from sunlight than from suffering.
I say they carry life-force that hasn’t been twisted through harm.
They grow in reciprocity, taking and giving in balance, nourishing without cruelty.
I’d rather build my strength from sunlight than from suffering.
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
People say plants don’t have enough protein.
I say they carry life-force that hasn’t been twisted through harm.
They grow in reciprocity, taking and giving in balance, nourishing without cruelty.
I’d rather build my strength from sunlight than from suffering.
I say they carry life-force that hasn’t been twisted through harm.
They grow in reciprocity, taking and giving in balance, nourishing without cruelty.
I’d rather build my strength from sunlight than from suffering.
Eating plants taught me more about spirituality than any book.
When my food stopped coming from harm,
my mind stopped feeling like a battlefield.
When my food stopped coming from harm,
my mind stopped feeling like a battlefield.
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Eating plants taught me more about spirituality than any book.
When my food stopped coming from harm,
my mind stopped feeling like a battlefield.
When my food stopped coming from harm,
my mind stopped feeling like a battlefield.
Some people can’t feel at peace in a world built on harm,
not because they’re fragile,
but because they can still feel.
Sensitivity isn’t weakness.
It’s life reminding you that you’re still alive.
not because they’re fragile,
but because they can still feel.
Sensitivity isn’t weakness.
It’s life reminding you that you’re still alive.
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Some people can’t feel at peace in a world built on harm,
not because they’re fragile,
but because they can still feel.
Sensitivity isn’t weakness.
It’s life reminding you that you’re still alive.
not because they’re fragile,
but because they can still feel.
Sensitivity isn’t weakness.
It’s life reminding you that you’re still alive.
“Live and let live.”
Those words were said to me by someone who still eats animals.
And they made me pause.
Just imagine how different the world would be if we all actually lived by that. (1/2)
Those words were said to me by someone who still eats animals.
And they made me pause.
Just imagine how different the world would be if we all actually lived by that. (1/2)
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“Live and let live.”
Those words were said to me by someone who still eats animals.
And they made me pause.
Just imagine how different the world would be if we all actually lived by that. (1/2)
Those words were said to me by someone who still eats animals.
And they made me pause.
Just imagine how different the world would be if we all actually lived by that. (1/2)