I've got birthing on the brain...

My reading focus has been on the whole birthing process after I got my fill of pregnancy information. I am currently reading Birthing Within by Pam England (thanks Vicky!), where they have the following quote that I thought was worth sharing:

Not so long ago I attended a birth for the first time since my own. To breathe with the mother, to watch the child's head appear, to experience the entire process moment by moment allowed me to touch a primordial element in my being. I laughed, and cried, experienced fear, empathetic pain, and deep joy. I was standing at the doorway of existence, feeling, as deeply as I had ever felt, the connectedness of my humanity to the rest of nature with her cycles of spring and winter, creation and decay.

-Ram Dass
From Introduction to Who Dies? By Stephen Levine