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.

— Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein Quotes

In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.

— Charles Eisenstein

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time.

— Charles Eisenstein

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

— Charles Eisenstein

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

— Charles Eisenstein

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.

— Charles Eisenstein

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

— Charles Eisenstein

Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don’t depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.

— Charles Eisenstein

Non-inflationary economic growth – an increase in the production of goods and services – is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money.

— Charles Eisenstein

Enlightenment is a group activity.

— Charles Eisenstein

The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

— Charles Eisenstein

A miracle is an invitation into a new story.

— 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 to convert into money.

— Charles Eisenstein

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

— Charles Eisenstein

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.

— Charles Eisenstein

We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.

— Charles Eisenstein

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.

— Charles Eisenstein

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

— Charles Eisenstein

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

— 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 are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization.

— Charles Eisenstein

What you’re looking for, you won’t find. But only by looking for it can it find you.

— Charles Eisenstein
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