Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.” — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“When you hear the phrase “rescue the financial system,” translate it in your mind into “keep the debts on the books.” They… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Even if I had money to invest I wouldn't invest it in oil companies - - or their bankers, suppliers, customers ...… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“What does economic growth actually mean? It means more consumption – and consumption of a specific kind: more consumption of goods and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time. It is a phenomenon with roots deeper than our money… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
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… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition that we're… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me,… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
“We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment;… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
“Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time. It is a phenomenon with roots deeper than our money system, for… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share
