Animal Sutras: Animal Spirit Stories

THE RENOWNED TEACHER AND AUTHORS SPIRITUAL MEMOIR AS TOLD THROUGH HIS LIFELONG ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS AND NATURE I love this book. It feels like a secret treasure bequeathed by Stephen Levine to be opened after his deathan overflowing vessel of insight humor and literary genius. Animal Sutras may be the best book Stephen Levine ever wrote. Mirabai Starr Wild Mercy Stephen was a profound healer of the heart writer and meditation teacher. In Animal Sutras his other gifts shine as a wise poetnaturalist and Dharma storytellerphilosopher offered here in a lyrical quirky playful and inviting collection. Jack Kornfield A Path With Heart For Stephen Levine animalpeople were his greatest teachers. So at age seventy he began collecting animal spirit stories and transcendent moments in nature from throughout his lifefrom the green snake who taught him to meditate as a boy to the generous hen whom predators would not harm and many more. Animals have a natural mindfulness Levine writes. They know