We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world. Charles Eisenstein More Quotes by Charles Eisenstein More Quotes From Charles Eisenstein 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 shelter wall lovers 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. Charles Eisenstein grief loss fall The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization. Charles Eisenstein turtles sea civilization True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. Charles Eisenstein health fighting self You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other. Charles Eisenstein community add needs 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 scarcity slavery survival How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. Charles Eisenstein imagine life-is beautiful One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect. Charles Eisenstein healing stories world What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you. Charles Eisenstein Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation. Charles Eisenstein nudge logic stories 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 issues mirrors self Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time Charles Eisenstein thorough choices happens In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are. Charles Eisenstein economy giving More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature. Charles Eisenstein agriculture alternatives fundamentals The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable. Charles Eisenstein corrupt-power reunion unstoppable When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act. Charles Eisenstein political crazy littles Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater. Charles Eisenstein agreement use thinking For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, Charles Eisenstein anxiety machines running Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened. Charles Eisenstein ecological-crisis financial earth The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. Charles Eisenstein scarcity isolation community
