birth, n.Definitions

Birth is always unwilling.

Birth is nothing but our death begun.

Birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Birth is a thing given by our mother once, but we have redone it ourselves a million times.

Birth is, to the butterfly something that looks like death to the caterpillar.

Birth is not the commencement of life; life begins with the onslaught of awareness.

Birth is always the separation from the all, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the all requires the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the all.

Birth is not about 'coming into' this world. It is about coming out of it, just as leaves come out from a tree. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.