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What a privilege it is to have an animal in one's life, either as a domesticated pet or as a 'wild' friend.
To observe them, their character traits and mannerisms; to marvel at, once the 'barrier' is down, how readily they give and accept love and friendship; to 'see' the soul of the animal in its eyes ... A profound experience on so many levels.
But one has failed to learn a precious lesson if one fails to recognise that the animal represents a microcosm of the Animal Kingdom as a whole and that the qualities that so enchant you in your animal companion extend to the nameless, the unknown and the unloved as well ...
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
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