Quotes by Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

Age

Self

World

Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don’t depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.

Community

Independent

People

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.

Earth

Ecological Crisis

Financial

Enlightenment is a group activity.

Activity

Enlightenment

Groups

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

Choices

Happens

Thorough

How do we change the world? Change the story.

Changing The World

Stories

World

I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn’t engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.

Grief

People

Thinking

I can’t give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one’s own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it’s beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.

Beautiful

Generosity

Giving

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.

Hate

Love Life

Monday

I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and there were frogs and turtles. You go back there and it’s dead now. The forest you went to, now there are bulldozers, now it’s a strip mall. These experiences of beauty followed by grief affect us more than learning that CO2 levels are now 400 parts per million.

Children

Grief

Thinking

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Advantage

Age

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Agreement

Agriculture

Alternatives

Beautiful

Believe

Care

Changing The World

Children

Choices

Civilization

Climate

Community

Corrupt Power

Couple

Creating

Creative

Demise

Desire

Different

Doing What You Love

Earth

Ecological Crisis

Economic

Energy

Enlightenment

Entertainment

Fall

Feelings

Fighting

Financial

Fire

Fun

Fundamentals

Gains

Generosity

Genius

Giving

Government

Greater

Grief

Groups

Growth

Happens

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Hate

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Quotes by Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don’t depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.

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.

Enlightenment is a group activity.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

How do we change the world? Change the story.

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.

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