The Soul of All Living Creatures Quotes

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. —Hippocrates”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Distracted by responsibilities and focused on our hopes and dreams, we neglect what is right within our reach. And in so doing, we miss the moment and all the rich experiences it offers us.”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“When we limit our experience to what we perceive, we let our senses define our existence. Unless we are willing to step out of our shoes to consider all that we may miss beyond what we are sensing, our lives become narrowed and circumscribed.”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Her guilty looks were not admissions of misdeeds, but merely signals to ease our distress”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“When I lost my way, I was accustomed to throw the reins on his neck, and he always discovered places where I, with all my observation and boasted superior knowledge, could not.
-Napoléon Bonaparte about his horse Marengo”
― Vint Virga , The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“At its essence, forgiveness means to give as before, before the breach you experienced with another, with yourself, to once again be connected with love, respect, and appreciation. The how of it—the hard part—is owning your own part and then giving up all claims against the other, a pardon, absolution, a letting go of all blame and resentments. Forgiveness takes away the barriers that you have built and maintained against yourself or between you and the other.”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“absolution, a letting go of all blame and”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon should man learn.… When man sought to know how he should live, he went into solitude and cried until in vision some animal brought wisdom to him. It was Tirawa, in truth, who sent his message through the animal. He never spoke to man himself, but gave his command to beast or bird, and this one came to some chosen man and taught him holy things.”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Since my earliest memories (I was maybe four or five years old), I’ve felt drawn to animals by some unexplained force. At holiday gatherings, my parents’ dinner parties, or days around town—especially in crowds—I could be found somewhere out of the way, comfortably sitting alone on the ground with a cat in my lap or dog close at hand. Sometimes I’d talk to them, other times not. I was simply content to be with them in silence and escape all the pressure of being with people—words freely spoken with so much unsaid, unspoken meanings, hidden agendas. With animals, I felt at home. Their messages were clear and true. What mattered in those moments was nothing more than our relationship.”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Do not judge your neighbor until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
― Vint Virga, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human