{"author":"Charles Eisenstein","author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit—to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe—a different Story of the World.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["action","doing","earth","habit","inaction","non-doing","problem","solution","story","void","wisdom","world"],"id":18497,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["attention","awareness","habit","love","observation","power","self-restraint"],"id":39369,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["humanity","sacred-teachings","sacred-wisdom"],"id":49234,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["activism","humanity","sacred-teachings","sacred-wisdom"],"id":64029,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["change","charles-eisenstein","ecology","economics","gaia","gift-giving","gifts","money","nature","philosophy","social-change","the-earth"],"id":75687,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"From our immersion in scarcity arise the habits of scarcity. From the scarcity of time arises the habit of hurrying. From the scarcity of money comes the habit of greed. From the scarcity of attention comes the habit of showing off. From the scarcity of meaningful labor comes the habit of laziness. From the scarcity of unconditional acceptance comes the habit of manipulation.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["abundance","attention","greed","habits","labor","laziness","manipulation","meaningful-labor","money","scarcity","time","unconditional-acceptance","unconditional-love"],"id":81936,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["humanity","sacred-teachings","sacred-wisdom","self-awareness"],"id":133376,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["activism","humanity","sacred-teachings","sacred-wisdom"],"id":140407,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["humanity","new-normal","normality","paradigm-shift","paradigms","sacred-economics","societies-in-transition"],"id":171178,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["activism","humanity","sacred-teachings","sacred-wisdom"],"id":178057,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}