The Yamas: Ahimsa

Yamas.

Yamas is a combination of 8 principles, that accordingly to the #yogasutras, if followed on your everyday life, will lead you to a more fullfilllign spiritual development.

The first principle is
1) Ahimsa.

Ahimsa is the process of becoming free of all violence, injury or harm towards others. And oneself. The goal is to neutralize our impulses toward agression.

That's how google explains it:
It's a word in Sanskrit, that means "respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others". 

Gandhi started writing and talking about it largely on his books, and so it became more known to the westerns.

https://www.amazon.com/Mohandas-K-Gandhi-Autobiography-Experiments/dp/0486245934

Also found this very interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmQkhTHb5aQ

And as a suggestion for you  to start with, why not go #leatherfree #100%veganleather ?
From now on, be aware of the leather products you daily use, and slowly , start replacing them for vegetable sourced leather.
Such as found in this 100% vegan shoe factory in Brazil!
I personally will struggle, but am willing to try.
https://en.useahimsa.com/

Namaste!