Christina Stevens - Love: The Saint and the Seeker

This book inspired me.

Ted Turner, CNN founder, global visionary, and philanthropist

Im not one for spiritual reading, but I found Christinas journey
fascinating and believable. As a matter of fact, Im astral traveling my
way to the bookstore right now.

Chevy Chase

A truly lovely and loving expression of life from a woman who is the
absolute embodiment of her word. Thank you for being you, Christina.

Rosario Dawson, actress and social and environmental
entrepreneur

A fascinating and inspiring story told with great honesty and lucidity.

Duncan Campbell, correspondent for The Guardian, The Observer,
and The British Journalism Review

Its riveting! I was going to say mind-blowing, but I think mind-expanding is more accurate.

Jayni Chase, founder of the Center for Environmental Education

The words and the teachings of Mother Teresa have greatly
impacted my life for many years. As a young girl, it was her teachings
that awakened my spirit and later sparked my interest to become a nun.
Mother Teresa has profoundly influenced my spiritual foundation
and is my philosophy for living. Like me, you have been led by the
greatest gift of alllove. I can now add Love: The Saint and the Seeker
as a contributing tome to my spiritual evolution and growth.

Chaka Khan

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Copyright 2014 by Christina Stevens

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Cover design: Amy Rose Grigoriou and Brian Sisco Interior design: Pamela Homan

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stevens, Christina

Love : the saint and the seeker / Christina Stevens. -- 1st edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-4019-4591-6 (tradepaper : alk. paper) 1. Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997. 2. Stevens, Christina. 3. Spiritual biography. I. Title.

BX4406.5.Z8S76 2014
271.97--dc23
[B]

2014006401

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4591-6

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1st edition, September 2014

Printed in the United States of America

For my parents,
who never knew the joy of their love for each other.

To the man on the motorcycle,
who try as he might and love as he must is still trying
to wrap his lips around those three simple words.
Unnecessary as they may be.

And for the one I cherish, who says again and again,
Its true! I do. I do love everybody.
And its a bright beautiful wonderful world

Though it has taken me 20 years
to dig deep enough to tell you this story,
I do believe everything unfolds in divine right order.
We see now, clear evidence that you and I are at the tipping point
of a giant global shift. The natural quickening of our evolution;
the rush of technology, along with mankinds growing
footprint across the universe is impacting our daily lives,
our planet earth and all its species
in epic proportion.

The good news is, we find ourselves together, amid this
great awakening, collected in this moment of expanding
awareness, with every needed solution at our fingertips ~
to arise from polarity to unity consciousness.
To emerge out of the dark and into the light ~
seeking unity of the self inside the diversity of the whole.
The fact that we are still wantonly killing each other, often
with weapons in our childrens hands, is a telling sign that
we human beings are still awaiting our transcendence.
As trite as it may sound ~ love is the answer.

I have not offered rules and tools
promising a life you have only dreamed of.
I am ill qualified to do that. And I dont presume to
think you may learn from my hiccups. Rather, I pray that
by leaping into my life adventure,
you may enrich and honor your own even more.

You are apt to wonder if a tale has been embellished
or a cloak of self-deception woven to deny an ugly truth.
Warts and all, I have done my best to keep the cryptic true.
Having grown up in the theater, my memory for dialogue is
reliable ~ my longing for drama, alive and kicking.
Timing though, is tricky.

I have dipped my pen into the timelessness of the soul.
In doing so, I found that life is a hologram of past, present,
and future, meshed intricately and endlessly, rather than
a lone linear journey that abruptly ends when we