Frederick Leboyer Quotes

#1. Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

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#2. These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

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#3. This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

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#4. Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

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#5. It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate.
Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

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#6. Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

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#7. The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

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#8. This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

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#9. Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.

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#10. Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

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#11. Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,

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