"The gift economy represents a shift from consumption……" — Charles Eisenstein
"The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community."
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44 Quotes by Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein has 44 quotes on this site.
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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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I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate…
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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…
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How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.
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The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover,…
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When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are…
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Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for…
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We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we…
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Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot…
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One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through…
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Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the…
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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…
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More Abundance Quotes
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
— Saint Basil
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
— Josh Billings
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
— Eileen Caddy
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the…
— Jeffrey Skoll
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What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort,…
— Rudy Giuliani
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
— Cesar Chavez
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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