Story Quotes by Christina Baldwin

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

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

— Christina Baldwin

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

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

— 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

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

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

— Christina Baldwin

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

— Christina Baldwin

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

— Christina Baldwin

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

— Christina Baldwin

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

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

— Christina Baldwin

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

— Christina Baldwin

“Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that…

— Christina Baldwin

Spiritual life is contractual.

— Christina Baldwin