We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Charles EisensteinIt is the cry of the separate self, โWhat about me?โ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesnโt matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
Charles EisensteinAre the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.
Charles EisensteinA woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and feeling more tired when she woke up than when she went to bed. She really wanted to go to a workshop and she went anyway. And when she was there, she felt much less tired. So she decided, "Maybe if I continue to follow what I really want to do at all times, I will feel less tired." This was her spiritual practice - - to only do the things that she wanted to, and to not make choices based on anything else. That is an embracing of pleasure, of joy, of good feelings.
Charles Eisenstein