Animals exist for their own reasons

http://mousemedicine.blogspot.com/2009/03/animal-revolution.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walker

http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3091&Itemid=0

The author Alice Walker another one evolving and realizing the age in which we live .

A quote: This is the best time to be alive, says Alice Walker, because
there is so much work to do—so many poor to house and feed, so much opportunity
for self-realization, the earth itself to be saved. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
novelist, poet, and essayist talks about her spiritual practice, the importance
of resolve, and the charming perfection of her imperfect cat.

Alice Walker is a writer and activist, meditator, and mother. The youngest of eight children born to a farm family in rural Georgia, Walker grew up to become one of the best-loved writers in America. Now 63, she continues to see life as a holy adventure packed with exploration and learning.The major themes of her writing remain unchanged. Walker is fascinated by community: its integral place in our lives, how it can be destroyed and achieved. She continues to contemplate suffering, especially among black women facing both sexism and racism. She calls her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple “my Buddha novel without Buddhism.”Now Walker has written what may be her most revealing book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For. Subtitled Inner Light in a Time of Darkness and Meditations, it offers heartfelt considerations of the worst troubles of our time—environmental crisis, sexual abuse, poverty, injustice, war, despair, racism.While her writing often deals with horrifying subjects, Walker manages to accentuate the positive. Casual, precise, and fiercely honest, her contemplations read like letters to a friend. The word “love” comes up repeatedly. So do the compassionate Buddhist practices of metta and tonglen. Meditation is especially praised, and called a “loyal friend.”We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For is rife with grave concerns, yet when I spoke with Alice Walker, it was clear that she remains full of hope. She believes that with greater awareness than our ancestors possessed, and thanks to our tremendous capacity for insight, knowledge, and empathy, we can create positive change—in ourselves and the world. —David Swick

I have read much about the animals. How we denigrate and underestimate their prowess and take their innocence for granted.What we could not learn from them and benefit from their company.