Charles Eisenstein Quotes
We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.
What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.
When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.
The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.
The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.
I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.