53 Quotes by Christina Baldwin

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .

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

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

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.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.

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.