10 Spiritual Lessons You Can Learn from Your Cat

Do we rush through life without noticing our surroundings? Do we spend enough time caring for our own basic needs and comfort? Take a page from the feline playbook to keep you purring. By mimicking the behavior of the cats that share our homes, we can develop fuller, richer spiritual lives. From the patterns of play, to the need for sleep, to finding joy in the smallest of things, cats show us how to reach inside ourselves for higher goals, a less stressful life, and a newfound ability to purr in tune with the world. Photographs of prancing, prowling, and playful cats provide the necessary inspiration to make the most of all of your nine lives.

Joanna Sandsmark And Her Cat, Trace, Live In Los Angeles, California. Joanna Has Written For DC Comics, Was A Staff Writer On TV's Weiro Science, And Is Currently Teaching An Online Course She Wrote Called "Get Funny." As A Voice Actress, She Has Appeared In Numerous Commercial, Industrial, And Animated Projects, Including The Popular Animated Television Series, Rugrats, She Is A Member Of The Writer's Guild Of America, The Screen Actors Guild, The American Federation Of Television And Radio Artists, And The Auto Club. Trace Is A Successful Feline Who Excels At Sleeping, Eating, Jumping, And Teaching Joanna Spiritual Lessons.

These two lighthearted books by voice actress and author Sandsmark do not mark the first appearance of pets in this column, and our readers already know that dogs can be angels. The lessons this former dog owner and current cat owner has to impart are hardly surprising—puppy love, purring, the value of the catnap, working like a dog—but both books are executed with great charm and are delightfully enriched by photographs from Getty Images and Corbis UK. For most collections.

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