Christina Baldwin Quotes

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With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Christina Baldwin
Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

Christina Baldwin
How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Christina Baldwin
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

Christina Baldwin
In writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Christina Baldwin
My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Christina Baldwin
Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

Christina Baldwin
The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Christina Baldwin
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.

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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.

Christina Baldwin
We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Christina Baldwin
We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

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History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Christina Baldwin
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

Christina Baldwin
Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Christina Baldwin
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

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Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

Christina Baldwin
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Christina Baldwin
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.

Christina Baldwin
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.

Christina Baldwin
Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

Christina Baldwin
We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Christina Baldwin