Quotes from 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 isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness.

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

By its simple shape, circle includes everyone without distinction, welcomes and invites all to participate, and creates equality among those gathered.

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

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

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

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

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

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.

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.