The following is an excerpt from the beautiful book entitled, DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
Jeffrey Masson is also the controversial psychoanalyst and best-selling author of The New York Times bestseller, When Elephants Weep. I highly recommend both of his remarkable books for anyone who has ever loved an animal and who knows the joy and richness of having been loved by an animal.
And I quote, "I am not a religious man, and I pause before using the word soul. But my experiences with the dogs in my life, and now with Sasha, Sima, and Rani, convince me that there is some profound essence, something about being a dog, which corresponds to our notion of an inner soul, the core of our being that makes us most human. In human animals, this core, I am convinced, has to do with our ability to reach out and help a member of another species, to devote our energy to the welfare of that species, even when we do not stand to benefit from the other ---
in short, to love the other for its own sake. If any species on earth shares this miraculous ability with us (and perhaps there are many more we do not yet know about), it is the dog, for the dog truly loves us sometimes beyond expectation, beyond measure, beyond what we deserve, more, indeed than we love ourselves.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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