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I am sorry that there is no source for this quote, but someonoe posted it on another list, and I thought it might fit in this thread.
quote: That animals touch us in a deep, central place is not a modern-day phenomenon, but one that pervades the history of the human-animal relationship. We sense that we can benefit spiritually in our relationship with animals, and we are right. They offer us something fundamental: a direct and immediate sense of both the joy and wonder of creation.
We recognize that animals seem to feel more intensely and purely than we do. Perhaps we yearn to express ourselves with such abandon and integrity. Animals fully reveal to us what we already glimpse: it is feeling -- and the organization of feeling -- that forms the core of self. We also sense that through our relationship to animals we can recover that which is true within us and, through the discovery of that truth, find our spiritual direction.
Quite simply, animals teach us about love: how to love, how to enjoy being loved, how loving itself is an activity that generates more love, radiating out and encompassing an ever larger circle of others.
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A friend of mine was walking around the county fair last night, eating a gyro sandwich. She wandered into the cow barn, and said she felt more than a little uncomfortable there with all the cows staring at her and her sandwich.
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I've learned a lot. Like how to leap four feet up vertically. And how to get people to do what I want, as well as how to do something stupid such as fall and make it graceful and intelligent looking.
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One of the most valuable things I learned from animals is to pick up food that's fallen on the floor quickly and eat it right away, before somebody steps on it.
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"A friend of mine was walking around the county fair last night, eating a gyro sandwich. She wandered into the cow barn, and said she felt more than a little uncomfortable there with all the cows staring at her and her sandwich."
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Geese have taught me that if you travel in large groups - and are aggressive, obnoxious, loud and poop wherever you want, there are people who will actually encourage you to come around by leaving food out.
Others, though, will yell at you, beat you off with a stick, and even try to run you down with their car.
(Note to self: Hose down front of vehicle)
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Dogs have taught me that you can get away with an awful lot as long as you are good at looking really guilty when caught.
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Geese have taught ME the meaning of the term "To Goose." However, the goose version of the "goose" is not quite as pleasant as a goose received from a loved one.
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