All things intertwined. Puppy, Buddha, and a dog: yes they are connected. An internet of spiritual wisdom those three. Some quotes:

“My heart today smiles at its past night of tears
Like a wet tree glistening in the sun after the rain is over.”
~~Rabindranath Tagore

“I met a puppy as I went walking:
We got to talking, Puppy and I.
‘Where are you going this fine day?’
(I said to the puppy as he went by).
‘Up in the hills to roll and play.’
‘I’ll come with you, Puppy,’ said I.”
~~A. A. Milne

“Two men look out through the same bars;
One sees the mud and one the stars.”
~~Frederick Langbridge

“An old flea-bitten dog was lying calmly in the canine lotus position meditating.
The canine Zen master arrived and rapped him sharply on the nose with a bamboo stick and barked:
‘Why is your tail wagging?’
The response: ‘I was getting in touch with my inner puppy.'”
~~ME

“Flowers do not rush to blossom.
Yet, man feels compelled to film them and then display the blooming in fast motion.
To do so is unnatural.
Everything should be savored at normal speed.
This is the natural cosmic order of things.”
~~ME

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.”
~~Marcel Proust

“If thou ask them who sendeth rain from heaven and by it quickeneth the Earth, and after it has been dead, they will certainly answer ‘God.’
Yet, most of them do not understand. The present life is no more than a pastime and a disport: but truly the future mansion is life indeed!
Would that they new this!”
Sura XXVIIII
(The Quran)

I sometimes feel the deepest spiritual connection to the simple things. Sometimes words have great depth and texture, but words always invoke feelings in me; and for that I am blessed.