"If your heart were sincere and upright," says Thomas a Kempis, "every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine." . . .
The Lord has left us love notes, wondrous billets doux, scattered extravagantly across creation. Hidden in the eye of the tiger, the wet muzzle of the calf, the delicacy of the violet, and the perfect curve of the elephant's tusk is a very personal, priceless message: "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him."
— Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness