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"Sterilizing community cats is the number one way to prevent kittens and to save the lives of community cats."

"The process of raising kittens is as close to actual magic as I'll ever get."

This is an interesting book. I found it buried underneath my other dhamma books. It takes place in Burma just before WWII. It has strong buddhist themes and was originally published in the 1950s.

"People are always asking, Why did you choose to rescue Siamese? There is no single answer to that question other than if your mother loved something, and then you grew up with that something, it seems to become a part of you."

"Having had the opportunity to make paw prints on this Earth, having touched so many lives, both furry and otherwise, having been able to be a part of such an amazing group of animal lovers- who could ask for more?"

Buddhism in a nutshell: "all conditioned things are inherently transitory, every worldly thing is, in the end, unsatisfying and there are no entities that are unchanging or permanent, only processes"

Addressing Doubt: "Don't get stuck in this trap. It's just an other hinderance. Another of the mind's little smoke screens to keep you from doing the most terrible thing in the world: actually becoming aware of what is happening."

"I am about to tread the very same path that has been walked by the Buddha and his great and holy disciples. An indolent person can not follow that path. May my energy prevail. May I succeed."

"Never mind what I have been taught. Forget about theories and prejudgments and stereotypes. I want to understand the true nature of life. I want to know what this experience of being alive really is. I want to apprehend the true and deepest qualities of life, and I don't want to accept somebody else's explanation. I want to see it for myself."

"Suffering is a big term in Buddhist thought. It is a key term and should be thoroughly understood. The Pali word is 'dukkha', and it does just mean the agony of the body. It means the deep, subtle, sense of unsatisfactoriness which is a part of every mind moment... the essence of life is suffering, said the Buddha."

"To come right down to it, if I take the kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the one hundred percent dedication I have to whatever I believe in-- these are the ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age."