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> [“What does economic growth actually mean? It means more consumption – and consumption of a specific kind: more consumption of goods and services that are exchanged for money. That means that if people stop caring for their own children and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/what-does-economic-growth-actually-mean-it-means-more-consumption-and/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

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## More by Charles Eisenstein

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/what-makes-you-care-about-nature-about-the-planet-is-it-really-that/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/the-financial-crisis-we-are-facing-today-arises-from-the-fact-that/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/more-than-a-mere-alternative-strategy-regenerative-agriculture/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/real-change-doesn-t-come-without-crisis-childbirth-doesn-t-come/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/we-sense-that-normal-isn-t-coming-back-that-we-are-being-born-into-a/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/so-much-of-our-politics-is-stuck-in-patterns-of-response-that-aren-t/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/i-ll-start-with-where-we-are-right-now-the-map-that-i-ll-use-is-this/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/an-economist-says-that-essentially-more-for-you-is-less-for-me-but/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [Joint consumption doesn’t create intimacy,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/joint-consumption-doesn-t-create-intimacy/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/you-could-conceive-spirituality-as-the-study-of-the-immeasurable-of/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [“We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/we-have-bigger-houses-but-smaller-families-more-conveniences-but-less/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/the-holistic-acupuncturist-and-the-sea-turtle-rescuer-may-not-be-able/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [“Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time. It is a phenomenon with roots deeper than our money system, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/perhaps-the-deepest-indication-of-our-slavery-is-the-monetization-of/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/true-discipline-is-really-just-self-remembering-no-forcing-or/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

> [You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/you-can-t-have-community-as-an-add-on-to-a-monetized-life-you-have-to/)

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