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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Charles Eisenstein
“What is power, after all? Every one of the power elite’s overwhelming advantages—military forces, surveillance systems, crowd control technology, control over the media, and nearly all the money in the world—depends on having people obeying orders and executing an assigned role. This obedience is a matter of shared ideologies, institutional culture, and the legitimacy of the systems in which we play roles. Legitimacy is a matter of collective perception, and we have the power to change people’s perceptions.”
Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Charles Eisenstein
“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.”
Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Charles Eisenstein
“McMansions in sprawling suburbs, without mountains of unnecessary packaging, without giant mechanized monofarms, without energy-hogging big-box stores, without electronic billboards, without endless piles of throwaway junk, without the overconsumption of consumer goods no one really needs is not an impoverished world. I disagree with those environmentalists who say we are going to have to make do with less. In fact, we are going to make do with more: more beauty, more community, more fulfillment, more art, more music, and material objects that are fewer in number but superior in utility and aesthetics. The cheap stuff that fills our lives today, however great its quantity, can only cheapen life.”
Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

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