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.

Charles Eisenstein

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• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Human
  • Human being
  • Him

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Words

• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Education
  • Three
  • Uneducated

• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Values
  • Act
  • Be Prepared

• If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Attention
  • Yourself
  • King

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • God
  • Remember
  • Proud

• I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Want
  • Band

• Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • World
  • Women
  • Happy

• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Growing

• Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Done

• The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • Long
  • History

• I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Band

• Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Today
  • Car
  • Habit

• Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Bad
  • Fun

• Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.

  

  Yance Ford
  • History
  • Strong
  • Team

• Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

  

  Mark Begich
  • Up
  • Important

• We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • May
  • Wall
  • Jerusalem

• I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Blame
  • Ideal
  • Promoting

• The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be “lovers of themselves” (2 Tim. 3:2).

  

  John Bevere
  • Men
  • Day
  • Lovers

• I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon

  

  Naoko Takeuchi
  • Sometimes
  • Feelings
  • Sadness

• 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.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Wall
  • Blame
  • Lovers