Charles Eisenstein Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Heart, Desire, Use

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.433, North Atlantic Books

• 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.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Desire, Stories, Demise

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

• I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Beautiful, Generosity, Giving

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

• Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Selfish, Community

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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