Christina Baldwin Quotes
Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.
When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.
With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.
We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.
With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .