53 Quotes by Christina Baldwin

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

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

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

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.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

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

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.