Charles Eisenstein Quotes

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• We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Agency, Law, Miracle

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• We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Beautiful, Believe, Order

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• We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Greater

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.180, North Atlantic Books

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• How do we change the world? Change the story.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Stories, World, Changing The World

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• 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.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Love, Lovers, Economist

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• 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.

  Charles Eisenstein

  New Relationship, New Experiences, New Normal

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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• 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?

  Charles Eisenstein

  Healing, Daily Activities, People

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.12, North Atlantic Books

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• 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.

  Charles Eisenstein

  War, Facts, Sides

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• Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Pain, Love Is, Self

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• We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Motivational, Beautiful, Wisdom

  "Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition". Book by Charles Eisenstein, 2011.

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• We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Community, Scarcity, Isolation

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• Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Intuition, Trust Your Intuition

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• I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Monday, Hate, Love Life

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• Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

  Charles Eisenstein

  Choices, Thorough, Happens

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• Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Attitude, Divine, Persons

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• Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Mirrors, Self, Issues

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.122, North Atlantic Books

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• Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Procrastination, Self, Addiction

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.2, North Atlantic Books

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• How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Beautiful, Life Is, Imagine

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• The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Wall, Shelter, Lovers

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

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• Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Love, Real, Thinking

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• Enlightenment is a group activity.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Enlightenment, Groups, Activity

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.27, North Atlantic Books

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• Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Fun, Play, Entertainment

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.176, North Atlantic Books

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• Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Selfish, Community

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Survival, Scarcity, Slavery

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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