I have come to have an all-consuming passion for every creature on earth: for all countries, all races, all animals. My appeals to help save the elephants in Africa, in danger of extinction from poaching because of consumer demand for ivory, is a natural art of the unitive vision. It is said of Margery Kempe, an English mystic of the fourteenth century, that "if she saw a man with a wound, or a beast, or if a man beat a child before her, or smote a horse with a whip, she saw our Lord being beaten or wounded." Sri Ramakrisha, one of the greatest of India's mystics, used to feel such wounds on his own body. — Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness