Charles Eisenstein Quotes

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.

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.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

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.

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.

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

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