98 Quotes by Charles Eisenstein

Pleasure, remember, is among other things the feeling we get from satisfying a need. The more powerful the need, the greater the pleasure. To follow this principle requires, first, accepting that our needs are valid and even beautiful. And not just our needs, but our desires as well, coming as they do from unmet needs. Hold.

No one’s ever completely broken. It’s just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.

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

Some of us may have experienced it when we find ourselves cooperating naturally and effortlessly, instruments of a purpose greater than ourselves that, paradoxically, makes us individual more and not less when we abandon ourselves to it. It is what musicians are referring to when they say “The music played the band.

To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify.

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

There are puppet-masters, but they are systems and ideologies, not people. As.

We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.