Birth
In our view, a human being is born a living Presence, a soul,
with various essential qualities inherent in that Presence. This
living Presence possesses all the potential of humanity, all its
properties and capacities. The self of the neonate, with its perceptions,
sensations, feelings, images, impulses, processes, and movements,
has its ground in primordial Presence, the source of all these
psychic manifestations. The essential Presence itself constitutes
the identity of the infant, more than any particular manifestation.
(The Point of Existence, pg174)