Animal Twilight
Betsy’s sister, Lynn, is in Africa, doing a photo safari. I received the following email from Betsy this morning.
Good morning dearest,
Since knowing that Lynn is going to visit the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, I have once more been transfixed by their website. If I could travel to any destination in the world, it would be there, in Nairobi. There is a link on the website to a page called “Elephant Emotion” which is very moving. Within the page there is a paragraph from Henry Beston written in 1928, and Daphne Sheldrick said the words were even more moving because all that many people knew about animals during that period of time was how to kill them.
“We need another and wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals …. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth”…
Greatest love,
Your wife
August 31, 2017 @ 11:04 am
What a beautiful quote. I was just reading Ramana’s view that is it difficult, but possible to realize truth from an animal incarnation. Of course, when any single being awakens, it’s then clear that we’re all awake.
It’s strange how this world that seems asleep is only pretending to sleep to keep me from feeling alone in the dream. Once I fully awaken, then they’ll say, we’re glad you finally woke up–welcome home!