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 More Quotes by Christina Baldwin More Quotes From Christina Baldwin We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. Christina Baldwin languagestoriesthinking in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. Christina Baldwin reflecting-uponlive-lifewriting Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book. Christina Baldwin bornpagesbook Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. Christina Baldwin diarieswritingteacher Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world. Christina Baldwin compassionimaginationspiritual 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 momspiritualmonday Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. Christina Baldwin sparkssacredway My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind. Christina Baldwin realjourneytravel Intuition always has our best interest at heart. Christina Baldwin instinctintuitionheart When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. Christina Baldwin spiralsaspectneeds We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story. Christina Baldwin biggerstorieswriting We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. Christina Baldwin swimwaterthinking The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living. Christina Baldwin souljourneyspiritual We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change. Christina Baldwin responsibilitywritingpeople Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. Christina Baldwin mapsjourneywriting 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 attributesstorytellingnarrative Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. Christina Baldwin storiesdesirewriting Spiritual life is contractual. Christina Baldwin spiritualityspirituallife-is Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars. Christina Baldwin starsspiritualinspirational My journal is my life's companion. Christina Baldwin journalingcompanionjournal
