Christina Baldwin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

• Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

  Christina Baldwin

  Teacher, Writing, Diaries

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

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

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Desire, Stories

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

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Journey, Maps

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

• 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.

  Christina Baldwin

  Responsibility, Writing, People

• Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Reflection, Bridges

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

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

  Christina Baldwin

  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

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

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Stories, Bigger

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

• 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.

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Creating, Lifetime

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

• 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.

  Christina Baldwin

  Jobs, Writing, Silence

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin