Never did I consciously participate in the fashioning of her infant body or soul. I realized I didn't know anything. No egg and sperm story, no vitamins and fresh vegetables, no pocketful of possible truths could account for her. I have come to understand that the conception and birth of my daughter was not so different from the conception and birth of any being or event, or even of insight. We attract or repel people to us just as we attract and repel thoughts and experiences, so if we wish to birth virtuous aspects of ourselves, we must make ourselves attractive and receptive to them.
Thoughts have power.
If we keep spiritual ideals in our minds, hearts, and souls, they will infuse themselves into our behavior and become the attracting agents for change. A Hindu maxim says that whatever a divine being yearns to become, that very thing will it become. We are divine beings, and an infinity of past yearnings is already acting to shape our future selves. Our attentive care to the present can help insure the birth of our divinity. This mysterious, marvelous process includes remembering and discovering who we really are.