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the heart is a tool of destruction.
What do we really want? Is it to triumph over the bad guys and be the winners? Or is it to fundamentally change the system? You might think that these two goals may not be contradictory. I think they are: first, because the pattern of "fighting evil" comes from the same mentality as our competitive, dominator system; second, because in demonizing those we perceive as other, we drive them toward the very behaviors that justify our demonization; third, because we are unlikely to win at the power elite ' s own game; fourth, because even if we do win, we will have become better at being them than they are; fifth, because if we enlist allies based on the motivation of triumphing over those greedy folks, they will abandon us once we have achieved that goal, even if the deeper systems remain unchanged. This is what happens nearly every time a dictator is toppled. Thinking they have won, the people go home; someone else steps into the power vacuum, and soon everything more or less goes back to the way it was.
Charles Eisenstein
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“You’re here in this life to give your gift”
The value of small acts
Charles Eisenstein believes that the nourishment and healing we experience in using our gifts – and in having them be seen – is crucial to the shift in society that he envisions: “Anything that invites people to act from a place of service in the smallest of ways is going to have an effect on the cosmos. Because what affects one, affects everyone. From the point of view of the connected self, everything we do matters.” “The devaluation of small, nurturing acts comes from the mindset of patriarchal civilization and the logic of separation,” he says. “In the logic of connection, by contrast, everything we do is in alignment: spirit and matter, money and the sacred. My work is about fostering that alignment.” And how to get there, on a daily personal level, when we feel obstructed or uncertain? Charles points to the value of being receptive to synchronicities: “You can make things happen simply by bringing your new story to your awareness. We need this magic, if we are to make the impossible happen,” he says. “We need to become creators of miracles and fluent in that technology.” Charles isn’t afraid to acknowledge the challenges facing utopic thinkers: “Currently, acting from a place of love contradicts financial self-interest. In a sane society, healing work and charitable work ought to be the most richly rewarded professions. Instead, it’s those which contribute to the demise of the planet that are. “But we can’t change the world by invoking shame and guilt. We can help politicians do the right thing by watching, witnessing, helping and not blaming. We have to let go of our hatred and self-hatred. “What ties my work together is the transition out of slavery,” he concludes. “Because what we truly want is the freedom to live our own lives, not the ones that artificial scarcity have given us.”
Source: positivenewsus.org
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“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.”
Charles Eisenstein (via brucefairbanks)
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Sacred Economics
…or the Story of Ascent. Charles Eisenstein talks about money as a token of gratitude, neighborly love to break free of a world where every activity has become a paid service, gift-giving and creativity in place of careers, and how Mother Earth needs to give way to Lover Earth, as our species matures and enters adulthood. A beautiful talk.
This is a 50 minute video. If you don’t have time to watch now, bookmark it. You’ll thank me :)
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$1, postcards available at http://pioneerspress.com/
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Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
Melissa Marr (via lifeisamazingblog)
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This one is from a thing I wrote called Ringside: A Companion Piece to the Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad. You can get the new pocketsized chapbook edition by going to http://www.pioneerspress.com
Only by understanding and following our feelings do we find positive relationships and steer clear of negative ones. When we feel joyous, loving, prized, and appreciated, we are probably in a relationship that is emotionally nourishing and brain healthy. If we feel persistently bad in a relationship, it's important to ask if that relationship is worth continuing if it can't be transformed.
Brant Cortwright, Ph.D. , The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle, 2015, pg 143
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The energies of sadness, fear, loneliness, confusion, despair, disillusionment, heartbreak - all experiences that are “dark” - want to be loved, welcomed, and seen as Whole.
One of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves is to gently and compassionately allow these energies to flow freely through our present experience; to Be the nurturing space that all expressions of Life can arise within.
May we learn to equally love the storms of winter and the warmth of summer, the darkness of night and the light of day, the moments of vulnerable pain and the delights of childlike joy.
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I think you know you’ve found someone special when you meet them for the first time, and it feels like you’re just picking up where you left off. You kind of look at them and think
‘Where the hell did you come from? Where the hell have you been?’
Caitlyn Siehl (via wordsnquotes)
Source: wordsnquotes.com
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This is from my new instagram. You should follow it because tumblr is dead these days. https://www.instagram.com/adamgnade/
Another one!
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From Adam Gnade’s Simple Steps to a Life Less Shitty. Get a copy here.