The renowned teacher and author's spiritual memoir, as told through his lifelong encounters with animals and nature

"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

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."