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… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
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… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
