Everything important I know, I've learned from babies. We were talking about some of our experiences working in different fields of medicine today at lunch and I shared a little about the babies I've known. The tough part is that for the important things, there really aren't any words to describe what that is exactly.

I, along with every other parent or person who has a child in their lives, knows about the wonderful things that we can learn about life - curiosity, innocence, their fresh point-of-view, their lovely uniqueness. But there is more, too - a purity of spirit and knowing that infants have while they still believe that the universe revolves around them, but before they understand that they are separate beings from that universe.

It's a necessary progression, I think, to go from a unity with our world that is pure but has no realization of what it is, to searching and finding our unique identiy, to going back to that unity - this time with awareness. Infants have always helped me connect to that energy - "energy" isn't the right word, but I'm not sure what other word to use. So many moments of holding an infant, allowing the energy to flow between us, gazing into their eyes and allowing them to "tell" me the secret.