The Lesson: Most of us adore our pets. They help us experience a direct heart-to-heart connection and unconditional love – but that experience does not have to end there. With a shift of perspective, we can also enjoy that feeling with other beings all around us—from a wild bird outside our window to a squirrel in a tree. Seeing these beings, and the family of all life, in a new way can ease loneliness and fill our days with deep joy and connection—enriching our lives beyond measure.
Notable Excerpt: “Realizing that we’re part of [the family of all life] can help free us from our prison of isolation, thinking that humans are only a community unto itself, isolated and walled off from the rest of the beings…
