Unleashing Your Inner Dog: Your Best Friend's Guide to Life

by Mari Gayatri Stein

Who hasn’t observed the abandon and joy of being a dog? Whether greeting master or mistress, gobbling their food, leaping for a Frisbee, or dashing into the cold surf to retrieve a stick, dogs have a joyful exuberance and hunger for life that perhaps so-called higher life forms could learn much from. Mari Gayatri Stein, who shares her life with several border collies, explores those life lessons in words and pictures. Mixing witty cartoons with touching and humorous anecdotes, she explores such admirable canine traits as authenticity, reveling in life’s abundance, unconditional love and devotion, living in the now, loyalty, and joie de vivre.

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2001

About the author

Mari Gayatri Stein is an author, artist, and cartoonist whose insightful words and drawings have delighted readers for over thirty years. Her whimsical illustrations and stories have been published in numerous collaborative book efforts, magazines, newspapers, and journals. Her works are embodiments of love, spirit, and heart, doused with humor, irony, and hope.

In perfect harmony with her artistic and writing endeavors, Mari has taught Yoga and meditation for two decades.

She lives with her husband and their two canine companions on an organic farm in southern Oregon in the summer, and writes by the sea in Malibu during the winter.

Reviews

[Tammy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though this book came out in 2001 it definitely has a hippie or new age vibe going on especially in the art work. I was expecting a more humorous book, but it is more philosophical and about how to have a relaxed, joyful outlook on life no matter what is happening. Mari Stein shares her observations of her dogs' joy in the every day: eating, chasing a stick, leaping for a Frisbee are all approached with the same open honesty. Dogs truly are nature's pure examples of unconditional love and loyalty.