Animal Therapy for Schizophrenia Posted: 05-17-07 09:37am
‘The sweetest thing you’ll ever know
- is to love and be loved in return.’
Vinicius de Moraes (Brazilian musician)
There is nothing more sublime to heal your
wounded soul than to give love to an
equally wounded creature. A shelter
animal, an abandoned animal, a love-hungry
animal. A wounded animal. This your
abandoned ‘rose garden,’ your secret
garden. A love-hungry helpless and
forlorn animal. And animals – cats,
dogs, turtles, birds – share love, above
in many ways to human love, for it is
innocent and unconditional. Animals
accept nurture, and give back caring in a
pristine and pure way. Because they are
helpless without you, they need you, and
they stick with you and give back your
love and care.
If you are wounded, brother or sister –
and don’t have a pet – you don’t
imagine the joy it brings to rescue and
treat a loving animal.
Get a pet – it will become your therapy,
your consolation, your reason to give love
that vouchsafes a return, something for
certain that will add a beautiful new
dimension to your soul, and heal you ad
infinitum…………..
The beauty and innocence and oh so simple
affection of a simple creature will bathe
you with cures and blessings and, above
all, with a love that will heal many of
your wounds……………….
