माया    (maya)

I used to look at my dog Smoky and think, “If you were a little smarter, you could tell me what you’re thinking,” and he’d look at me like he was saying, “If you were a little smarter, I wouldn’t have to.”  Fred Jungelau

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.--Plato :

  Maya (Sanskrit , from mā "not" and yā "this"), in Hinduism, is a term describing many things. Maya is the illusion that the phenomenal world of separate objects and people is the only reality. For the mystics this manifestation is real, but it is a fleeting reality; it is a mistake, although a natural one, to believe that maya represents a fundamental reality. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this—more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body, is the result of an unenlightened perspective. (Wikipedia)

George Harrison:  Beware of Maya (Darkness)   Watch out now, take care Beware of soft shoe shufflers Dancing down the sidewalks As each unconscious sufferer Wanders aimlessly Beware of maya   all lyrics        MusicVideo

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his –James Thurber       The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. –Ambrose Bierce     Maya Behaving (keep the volume up) “A dog naps so much because it loves so hard”

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.  This is the principal difference between dog and man  --Mark Twain.

The dog is a gentleman;  I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.  –Mark Twain.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.  Gandhi

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. –Abraham Lincoln

I love a dog.  He does nothing for political reasons.  –Will Rogers

To err is human, to forgive is canine.

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god.  He knows to whom above him to give himself.  He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power..  –Maurice Maeterlinck

I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convince that basically dogs think humans are nuts.  –John Steinbeck, Travels with Charlie in Search of America

If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. –Phil Pastoret

God, make me the person my dog thinks I am. 

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human.  The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly dog..  –Edward Hoagland

A dog is not ‘almost human’, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.  John Holmes

Dog is God spelled backwards.  That means something, I’m just not sure what exactly.  But human is namuh spelled backwards.  –Marc-Cristophe

A dog’s day consists of eating, playing and sleeping, and while sleeping, the dog dreams of eating and playing.