We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true,… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
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… — 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
The word "spiritual" normally means something that's distinct from the fleshly or the material. It's not of the world. But that version… — 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
You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically… — 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
