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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.

Charles Eisenstein

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Charles Eisenstein
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: November 25
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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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The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.
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True discipline is really just self-remembering no forcing or fighting is necessary.
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What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you.
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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.
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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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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.
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In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
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Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.
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Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.
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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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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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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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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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The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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