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Charles Eisenstein is a public speaker, gift economy advocate, and the author of several books including The Ascent of Humanity (2007), Sacred Economics (2011), and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (2013).

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Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

Joints, Intimacy, Consumption, Joint, Create

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.

Economist, Essentially, Love, Lovers, Says

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

Agriculture, Alternatives, Fundamentals, Regenerative, Relationship

How do we change the world? Change the story.

Change, Changing The World, Stories, Story, World

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

Community, Add, Needs, Monetized, Actually, Life

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 these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it.

Change, Crisis, Humanity, Love, Real, Thinking

A miracle is an invitation into a new story.

Invitation, Invitations, Miracle, Stories, Story

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

Beautiful, Life Is, Imagine, Life, Dare

We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

Beautiful, Motivational, Offered, Personal, Ubiquitous, Wisdom

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 word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.

Admirable, Conception, Different, Hard Work, Spiritual, Study

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Facts, Same, Side, Sides, War

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

Doing What You Love, Genius, Logic, Love, Result

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 goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

Burnout, Journey, Nice, Spiritual, World

When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

Crazy, Littles, Political, Rebellion, Same, Small

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

Advantage, Feeling, Feelings, Insecure, Notice

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

Interbeing, Logic, Love, Nudge, Separation, Stories

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.

Thinking, Hopeful, Trying, Succeeds, Impossible

Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.

Civilization, Gains, Impetus, Natural, Powerful, Used

Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

Mirrors, Self, Issues, Inseperable, Rendered, World

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.

Effect, Healing, Invisible, Learns, Stories, World

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