The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

— 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.

— Charles Eisenstein

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

— Charles Eisenstein

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.

— Charles Eisenstein

The state of interbank 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

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

To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

— Charles Eisenstein

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

— Charles Eisenstein

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

— Charles Eisenstein

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

— Charles Eisenstein