“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
You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Time is life. When we experience time as scarce, we experience life as short and poor.” — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of… — 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
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
“In the same vein, the problem in economic life is supposedly greed, both outside ourselves in the form of all those greedy… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is… — 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 Image
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 Image
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature. — 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 multiple crises...and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
