Love as the anesthesia for inner work

When a baby is born into this world, it has this incredibly soft skin and this amazing newborn smell, other than anything else that exists. You might even say it’s other worldly. And the experience with that baby becomes other worldly. And a baby is capable of taking you to other worlds, other spheres, and other consciousnesses. Whatever state you’re in, if somebody puts a newborn into your arms, that state will change to something higher. But as the baby grows, that softness of skin fades away, that smell of the newborn fades away, and something happens to that child. It’s like being placed in brine does something to whatever you place into brine. It creates a hardness to it.