In Touch with Being

I was listening once again to a The Power of Now, by Eckart Tolle, and was reminded again that babies are total in touch with Being itself. My son's facial movements, cries of hunger or affection, kicking of the legs, and peaceful sleep are all expressions of his state of not be aware of self...of pure stimulus and response. In other words, he is totally connected with the Essence behind all of us and has no choice but to live completely in the present moment. I think that this is one of the reasons that people are so drawn to babies. We instinctively know that they are connected and we long to return to the innocence that was ours before the age of reason, before our minds created an identity for ourselves.