Quotes from Charles Eisenstein

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

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 to the earth, a new experience of being human.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well.

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

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 to the earth, a new experience of being human.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.