Unleashing Your Inner Dog: Your Best Friend's Guide to Life

By Mari Gayatri Stein

Book Overview

Who hasn t observed the abandon and joy of being a dog? Whether greeting master or mistress, gobbling their food, leaping for a Frisbee, or dashing into the cold surf to retrieve a stick, dogs have a joyful exuberance and hunger for life that perhaps so-called higher life forms could learn much from. Mari Gayatri Stein, who shares her life with several border collies, explores those life lessons in words and pictures. Mixing witty cartoons with touching and humorous anecdotes, she explores such admirable canine traits as authenticity, reveling in life s abundance, unconditional love and devotion, living in the now, loyalty, and joie de vivre."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577311655
• ISBN13: 9781577311652
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

What a treat!

I was so caught up in the illustrations, that I didn't want to distract myself with the words, but when I started to read, I didn't want to stop to look over at the illustrations. Profound concepts simply expressed. I found Unleashing Your Inner Dog to be delightful and clever, a treat for the eye, the funny bone, and the soul.

Unleashing Your Inner Dog is a treat

Mari's love for her dogs and her boundless insight into their character illuminates every page of her book. You find yourself immersed in a doggy world that soothes your soul and lifts your heart. Her delightful and amusing drawings enhance every page. This book is a real treat.

Warm, Delightful Book with Exquisite Illustrations

As a meditator striving to live in the moment and appreciate the small miracles of every day life, I was absolutely delighted to discover Mari Stein's "Inner Dog." She describes the challenges of being human with warm, loving humor. And the illustrations are exquisite! This is a book I can pick up over and over, each time discovering some new way to practice "loving kindness" when seeing myself through the eyes of my pet. I might add that I am owned by a cat who continually teaches me to stretch my body and my mind and not get too attached to anything.

At last I know

Having owned dogs for many years, I often thought that by their looks and postures they were trying to teach me something.......and now I know. Mari's wonderful little book put into words and drawings what my dogs have been trying to teach me for years. Unfortunately I did not understand them, however now all their little idiocyncracies are clear to me. I have unleashed my inner dog and we now do things together with a whole new meaning. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a dog (or even a cat who thinks it is a dog).

Stein's poetic wit and wisdom

With poetic wit and wisdom, Stein captures the essence of what all dog-lovers know: We have much to learn from our four-legged companions about unconditional love, loyalty and the joy of living for the moment. Whether you espouse eastern or western philosophical views, "Unleashing Your Inner Dog" will provide you with tools that can make your life more meaningful by ridding your heart of "human- mind-traps". Our pets are a gift from God. Stein teaches us how to fully appreciate and learn from this gift...An added "gift" - the delightful, whimsical original art Stein uses to "teach without words"!