why do I lovingly hold babies?

To help them and nourish them, to help teach them the most important thing they could ever
learn--  that they are not alone, it is not them against the world,  that they are blessed
to be part of a loving, interconnected, divine web of life, that we're all in this
miraculous Cosmic Dance together, that others will always support them and nourish them.

To the extent people learn this, they have holistic wellness (because they have the
ability to feel loved, to have loving thoughts and feelings and to love well); to the
extent that they don't, they suffer from: despair, loneliness, self-centeredness,
selfishness, conceit, ego-centrism, fear, worry, sadness, the inability to feel kindness,
compassion and gratefulness, the inability to feel joy about the happiness of others, and
the inability to act as a helpful team-player in the game of life.