Top 42 Christina Baldwin Quotes
#1. Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
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#4. Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.
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#5. My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.
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#6. When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.
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#7. 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.
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#8. The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.
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#9. 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.
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#10. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.
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#11. 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.
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#13. We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.
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#15. Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness.
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#16. In writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.
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#17. By its simple shape, circle includes everyone without distinction, welcomes and invites all to participate, and creates equality among those gathered.
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#18. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
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#19. Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
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#20. The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.
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#21. Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.
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#22. 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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#24. This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
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#25. The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them ...
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#27. When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
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#30. To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
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#32. When you are stuck in a spiral, to change the aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.
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#33. How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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#34. Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.
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#35. With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
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#36. 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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#37. The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
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#38. Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.
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#39. Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.
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#40. Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
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#41. Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
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#42. In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
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