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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.

Charles Eisenstein

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Charles Eisenstein
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: November 25
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Trust your intuition and be guided by love.
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Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.
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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 paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.
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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.
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You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.
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What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take care of it? Or is it that you actually love the planet, and regardless of your self-interest and regardless of its instrumental use to you, you want to take care of it?
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More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
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In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
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Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.
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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.
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Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
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Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.
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We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
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The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.
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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.
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True discipline is really just self-remembering no forcing or fighting is necessary.
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