“We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intercession 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“Trust your intuition and be guided by love.” – Charles Eisenstein
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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
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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
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“We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“How do we change the world? Change the story.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. The economist says ‘more for you, means less for me.’ But the lover knows that more for you is more for me too.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and love defies the logic of Separation.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“The state of inter-being 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, judgement, and blame.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“Enlightenment is a group activity.” – Charles Eisenstein
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We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less good judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.
We’ve built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever,
but have less actual communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These times are times of fast foods;
but slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.
– Charles Eisenstein
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“The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralysing, while the naive person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes even succeeds.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“We live within a cultural mythology that tells us we are separate beings in competitive relation for power, even for survival. We long to return to a culture of inclusiveness, cooperation, and the sharing of gifts.” – Charles Eisenstein
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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
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“From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labour comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“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.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit—to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe—a different Story of the World.” – Charles Eisenstein
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“Here is another paradox: We become better people only when we give up the quest to become better people.” – Charles Eisenstein
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