Animal Sutras: Animal Spirit Stories

THE RENOWNED TEACHER AND AUTHOR’S SPIRITUAL MEMOIR, AS TOLD THROUGH HIS LIFELONG ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS AND NATURE

This book of sutras - wisdoms - provides spiritual and practical teachings on the importance of humanity’s relationship with animals and nature and how compassion benefits us and our planet.

For Stephen Levine, animal-people were his greatest teachers. So, at age seventy, he began collecting animal spirit stories and transcendent moments in nature from throughout his life-from 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 what they are doing. Humans, who are full of confusion and seldom wholly in touch with their mind/body, need encouragement and technique to live in the present.

‘I love this book. It feels like a secret treasure bequeathed by Stephen Levine to be opened after his death-an 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 poet-naturalist and Dharma storyteller-philosopher, offered here in a lyrical, quirky, playful, and inviting collection.’ - Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart