Birth Quote by Mary Antin

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the…

— Mary Antin

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the…

— Mary Antin

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

— Mary Antin

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mother gives birth to them, but that life obliges them over…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the…

— Sarah J. Buckley

“Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is birth in the spiritual.”

— Edgar Cayce

Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In…

— Bernie Siegel

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

— Robin Lim

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

— Thomas Keating

“Without your pain you are nothing but a spiritual embryo.”

— Bryant McGill

“… human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them…

— Erich Auerbach

“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective…

— Claire Fontaine