Cats have whiskers everywhere – not just on their face.Those incredible whiskers are a cat’s primary touch receptors. Whiskers are not just on a cats face, they are located on their front and back legs and over their eyes (those are not eyelashes). Cats have 3D whisker technology. Whiskers have a high degree of nerve endings at the base, when triggered the nerves send the brain a three-dimensional map of their surroundings. The whiskers help determine if a cat can move between two objects by gauging the distance. Whiskers will also help the cat guide their way through night by the cat moving their whiskers forward, making the whiskers an important part of their sensory code. Source: Victoria Swanson, Smart Living

There was a young man who said ‘though
It seems that I know that I know,
What I would like to see
Is the I that sees me
When I know that I know that I know’.

~Alan Watts

Purple Life Force. Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
~Swami Chinmayananda

Someone is in this world whom we love so much and who believes us more than everyone else that’s our best friend.
~Unknown 

A friend is the best gift we give to ourselves. Friends are those people in our life with whom we do not have any blood relation. It is a relation of love and affection towards each other. A true friend loves us unconditionally, understands us, but never judge us and always tries to support us, help us and give us good advice. ~Anurag Prakash Ray 

Dogs have two times as many muscles to move their ears as people. The longer a dog’s nose, the more effective it’s internal cooling system. Their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month. 61. All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth. Smaller breeds mature faster than larger breeds. Source: Cesar

We all need somebody to talk to, somebody that will listen somebody that understands. Love doesn’t isolate. if you have to cut off good friends and family to please your partner, you’re not in a relationship. That’s slavery, a person only isolates you so they can control you. ~Unknown

When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand…a friend who cares. ~Unknown

Jendhamuni at the Lotus pond – April 18, 2015.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~Gautama Buddha