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

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  Stories, Scholar, Conqueror

  Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea (2010). “The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sacred

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• Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

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  Inspirational, Confusion, Despair

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Stars

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

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  Heart, Intuition, Instinct

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

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  Needs, Spirals, Aspect

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

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, People

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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

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  Live Life, Writing, Reflecting Upon

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.43, New World Library

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• Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

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  Our World, Views, Vision

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• Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

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  Teacher, Writing, Diaries

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.18, M. Evans

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• My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

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  Travel, Real, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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

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  Writing, Desire, Stories

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

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  Thinking, Stories, Language

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

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• This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

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  Narrative, Storytelling, Attributes

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.11, New World Library

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Writing, People

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• Spiritual life is contractual.

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  Spiritual, Spirituality, Life Is

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• My journal is my life's companion.

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  Companion, Journal, Journaling

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• 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 extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Trying, Needs, Attention

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.35, New World Library

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• 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.

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  Writing, Creating, Lifetime

  Christina Baldwin (2007). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.31, New World Library

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• Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.

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  Spiritual, Compassion, Imagination

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Mom, Spiritual, Monday

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

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  Emotional, Rights, Our Society

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